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PREFACE. 



The following Testimonials are collected and published to 
encourage and strengthen, on their pilgrimage journey, those 
whose faces are turned toward the Heavenly Zion, with a de- 
sire to reach, in the end, the mansions of blessedness therein ; 
those who love the Lord Jesus Christ sincerely, and desire to 
serve him faithfully. 

The Friends whose names are brought to view in this col- 
lection, are, as we confidently believe, but a very small part 
of the number who, during the same space of time, have run 
their earthly race in faith, and left the world in the hope of 
eternal life through Christ, even in the limits of the society to 
which these belonged. 

Memorials of some others, not herein named, have been 
prepared and brought forward, which are not preserved, on 
account of some want of skill in drawing them up, and a defi- 
ciency in the selection of matter suitable to edify a generation 
to which they were not personally known. 

The preparation of a work containing even a sketch of the 
lives of all who have lived godly lives among us, and died in 
the faith and hope of the gospel, and whose memory is dear 
to a large number of their friends who knew them, is far from 
being thought of, even if it were practicable. 

It is hoped the following examples may have some good in- 
fluence in encouraging every reader to submit to the cross of 
Christ, and, by a life of faith and self-denial, to press toward 
the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Jesus 
Christ, that they may thereby be enabled to become heirs of 
his kingdom. 



LIST OF MEMORIALS. 



William Williams. - 5 

Aaron Benedict. -- 7 

Esther Benedict. ------ 10 

Sarah Hadley. - - - - - - -14 

Joseph Cloud. ------ 18 

Caleb Harvey. - - - -- - -32 

Anna Lindley. ------ 35 

Narcissa Osborn. - - - - - - -41 

Mary Anthony. 47 

Enoch Pearson. - - -- - - -58 

Joseph B. Hunt. ..---. 62 

Patience Sleeper. ------ 73 

Phebe D. Benedict. - - - - - - 76 

James Hadley, of Indiana. ----- 83 

James Hadley, of Ohio. ----- 94 

Elias Fisher. -------96 

James White. ------- 100 

Daniel Bailey. - - - - - - -111 

Elizabeth Bond. 119 

John Jay. 127 

David Osbofn. - - - -- - 135 

Benajah Hiatt. - - - - -- -137 

Jesse Hunt. 145 

Jeremiah Hubbard. 147 

Mary S. Watkins. 154 

Anne Moore. - - - - - - -161 



MEMORIALS 



OF 



DECEASED FRIENDS 



WILLIAM WILLIAMS. 

A Testimony of Whitewater Monthly Meeting^ Wayne 
County^ Indiana^ concerning William Williams, 
deceased. 

We feel our minds engaged, from united motives of 
love and duty, to give this testimony concerning our 
beloved friend, William Williams; for as ^^the 
memory of the just is blessed," so is the remem- 
brance of this faithful minister of the gospel precious 
to many. 

It appears from information, that he was born in 
the State of North Carolina, about the year 1763, 
whence he removed, while young, to the State of Ten- 
nessee, where he resided until the year 1814, when he 
removed with his family, and settled within the verge 
of this meeting. 

From some manuscripts which he left, it appears 
that his tender and susceptible mind was illuminated 
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6 WILLIAM WILLIAMS. 

with the iashining of the Heavenly Father's love, ia 
the morning of his day ; though he found it hard, for 
a time, to submit to the lowliness and simplicity which 
the truth required. He endured many severe conflicts 
before he surrendered his will to the government of the 
Prince of Peace. But through submission to the re- 
fining baptism of the Holy Spirit, he was gradually 
prepared to fill the dignified station of a Minister of 
the Gospel of Christ : he became an able advocate 
for the cause in which he had embarked, and by his 
faithful attention thereto, his labors were blessed, to 
the benefit of Friends and others — he having borne 
many living testimonies among us. 

Often recommending a close attention and obedi- 
ence to the manifestations of light and grace in the 
soul, as the only means that can insure that peace 
which the world can neither give nor take away ; 
much of his time was given up in traveling abroad, to 
promote truth and righteousness among mankind. 

He often had religious meetings among those not 
of our society, and in those was frequently favored to 
lift up his voice in the power and authority of truth, 
so that sometimes not only the whole assembly seemed 
to be clothed with solemnity, but the hearts of many 
were moved, and the witness of God in them reached 
by his living testimony. 

His life and conversation were exemplary : he was 

diligent in the attendance of our religious meetings, 

. and his deportment therein was solid and instructive ; 



AARON BENEDICT. / 

in meetings for discipline, he was very serviceable; 
his remarks tending to excite Friends to a steady ad- 
herence to divine counsel, in transacting the weighty 
affairs of the Church. 

His last journey in truth's service was to a part of 
the meetings belonging to Philadelphia Yearly Meet- 
ing. His health having been on the decline for 
several years, and his bodily infirmity increasing, he 
was, soon after his return home, in the year 1823, 
mostly confined to his chamber and bed for the re- 
mainder of his time, during which he manifested much 
quietness and serenity of mind. 

He quietly departed this life the 25th of the 
Eighth month, 1824. 



AARON BENEDICT. 

A Memorial of Alum Creek Monthly Meeting^ concern- 
ing Aaron Benedict. 

He was the son of Aaron and Elizabeth Benedict, 
members of the Society of Friends, who were con- 
cerned to educate their children in the principles 
thereof; but this, our beloved Friend, feeling his 
mind touched with the love of God in Christ Jesus, 
was engaged under the quickening influence of that 
love, in early life, to know for himself (as he has been 



8 AARON BENEDICT. 

heard to express) an establishment in the alone true 
and saving faith ; by which he was often drawn into 
secret places, and the breathings of his spirit were 
poured forth for the extension of holy help ; and thus 
continuing under the baptizing influence of the spirit 
of truth, and abiding under the various turnings of 
the refining hand, he was quahfied for usefulness in 
religious society, filling, for a number of years, the 
important station of an elder in the church. And 
having become concerned to know the truth for him- 
self, he was prepared to give a reason of the hope that 
was in him. 

His natural temper was sweet, affable and commu- 
nicative; yet, apprehending in early fife (as he has 
since expressed) that the society of that class of 
young people with whom his situation placed him in 
association, was prejudicial to a growth and advance- 
ment in the truth, he withdrew himself from these, 
and spent much of his time in retirement until about the 
twenty-fifth year of his age; when he joined in mar- 
riage with Esther Lancaster, daughter of Aaron and 
Sarah Lancaster, a virtuous young woman, unto whom 
he was a faithful and affectionate companion to the 
end of his days. 

Being impressed with the important responsibiUty 
of the station which parents occupy as toward chil- 
dren, he was concerned assiduously to watch over 
their offspring, frequently taking opportunities of 
labor with them, to instill into their tender minds the 



AARON BENEDICT. 9 

love of virtue and true religion; and some of these 
can revert to many such seasons, commencing with 
their earliest recollections, when, no doubt, under the 
qualifying influence of heavenly goodness, his counsel 
dropped as the " dew and as the small rain upon the 
tender grass." Thus was counsel tenderly adminis- 
tered, and restraint exercised, when occasion required. 

His sense of Divine Majest}^ was such that his mind 
appeared to be often clothed with reverential awe — 
being grieved with the light and trivial manner in 
which many, even of religious profession, make men- 
tion of the sacred name. 

His last illness was attended with much bodily 
affliction, and of but few days' continuance ; through 
the course of which he appeared to be in a thought- 
ful, serious and reverential frame of mind, in which 
he communicated much good counsel to his family 
and those who came to see him ; and much tenderness 
of heart was experienced by many who were present 
at those seasons. 

Hopes had been entertained by his friends and 
medical assistants that he would recover until within 
a few hours before his death ; but when it was per- 
ceived by him that his dissolution was near, he 
was drawn forth, in great fervency, to supplicate the 
throne of grace that the immortal part might forever 
be at rest. 

The solemnity, calmness and resignation which 
appeared to accompany his mind, with the heavenly 



10 ESTHER BENEDICT. 

harmony which was experienced by many who were 
present from this period until the close of his life, 
and which was again experienced at the time of 
his interment, were such as to leave no doubt on 
the minds of his friends, that he was favored with 
a foretaste of that joy which is prepared for the 
righteous. 

Thus he quietly resigned his life the 27th of the 
Seventh month, 1825, aged fifty-six years and eight 
months. His remains were interred the day follow- 
ing, attended by a large concourse of people, which 
proved a solemn and instructive season to many. 



ESTHER BENEDICT. 

A Memorial of Alum Greek Monthly Meeting^ Ohioj 
concerning Esther Benedict. 

She was the daughter of Aaron and Sarah Lan- 
caster,, and although she was deprived of valuable 
parents in early life, yet, by taking heed to the regu- 
lating principle of life, light and truth, we believe that 
she was brought to see herself as she was, and pre- 
served, through the slippery paths of youth, in a 
good degree of consistency of conduct ; and, yielding 
to the renovating power of divine grace, she was quali- 
fied, in after life, to act with propriety in the different 



ESTHER BENEDICT. 11 

departments of her allotment ; being a kind and afiec- 
tionate wife; a. tender and watchful parent; a sympa- 
thizing and helping friend to the sick and afflicted; a 
useful member of our religious society ; and an elder 
in the church ; yet diffident and unassuming; in Chris- 
tian humility, preferring others to herself. 

Her mind, previously to the trying dispensation of 
sickness with which her neighborhood was visited, was 
solemnized under a sense thereof, which she expressed 
to a friend, saying, that "as she w^as sitting in a 
Monthly Meeting, in a comfortable enjoyment, her 
mind was impressed with a belief that all who were 
then present would not be favored to assemble in like 
manner again ;" w4iich was fulfilled in the removal of 
her beloved husband, whose remains w^ere interred on 
the day of the next Monthly Meeting; an event 
deeply trying to her; yet her mind seemed to be 
much centered, and at times enabled. to lean upon 
the arm of invincible strength ; manifesting a deep 
concern and wading of spirit for the welfare of those 
on whom the hand of affliction was laid. 

In a letter to a friend, she expressed that " it was 
an awful time, and unknown who shall be called 
next ;" and concluded by saying, " may all, therefore, 
watch and be ready for the midnight cry." And a 
little previous to her own dissolution, she, in a very 
cautious and solemn manner, mentioned to a near 
friend a dream which had made deep impressions on 
her mind ; in which she saw " two men solemnly pro- 



12 ESTHER BENEDICT. 

ceeding toward her house, and as she queried who 
they were, she was told they were prophets ; and as 
they came in and sat down, she asked the cause, and 
the answer was given — ' Two more of thy family must 
be taken away.' " 

In a few days after, a worthy friend, occupying the 
station of an elder, was removed by death ; on which 
she expressed to the same friend her full belief that 
another of this class would be taken away ; thus im- 
plying her dream, which was indeed shortly verified 
in the termination of her own life. 

Her illness was short, and her bodily sufferings 
were great; yet her understanding was preserved 
clear. At one time, soon after the commencement of 
the disease, being alarmingly seized (insomuch that 
those around her were doubtful of her continuing 
many hours), experiencing a little relief, she said she 
felt ^^much quietness; and that she thought she 
never saw a time in which all things, not criminal, 
were made so near alike to her ; that she was favored 
in remembrance of her own preservation to give up 
her children, and to feel no anxiety." After which 
she expressed but little; yet, at one time, turning 
to them, she said she believed they must give her up. 

The evening before her departure, her son inti- 
mated to her his apprehension that she would not 
survive long. She rephed : " I shall soon be with thy 
father, and join with him and the angels in singing 
praises forever and ever." 



ESTHER BENEDICT. 13 

After which she called her children to her, and 
with quietness and calmness, gave directions concern- 
ing her property with a great deal of discretion, 
descending into many necessary particulars ; and, in 
the most affecting manner, spoke of the afflicting 
stroke of separation to them. 

After which she appeared more easy, and in the morn- 
ing, the physician speaking encouragingly, some hopes 
were eptertained of her recovery; but she retained 
her serenity of mind ; and speaking to one of her 
daughters, she inquired if the necessary preparation 
was made for her burial, and gave suitable directions 
concerning it; after which she lay very still until 
about two o'clock in the afternoon, when she informed 
the physician that her stomach refused the medi- 
cine; and soon after, symptoms of death appeared, 
and her breath became gradually shorter, until she 
expired. 

The calming influence of divine love was mercifully 
experienced on this solemn occasion ; and we feel an 
unshaken belief that her departed spirit has gone to 
receive ^^an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and 
that fadeth not away." 

Thus she quietly departed this life the 25th of the 
Ninth month, 1825, aged forty-nine years and five 
months, about two months after the decease of her 
husband ; and, on the 26th, she was interred in 
Friends' burying-ground, at Alum Creek, in the 
State of Ohio. 



14 SARAH HADLEY, JR. 



SARAH HADLEY, JR. 

Memorial of Springfield Monthly Meeting^ Ohio^ held 
the 14:th of the Seventh mouthy 1829, concerning 
Sarah Hadley^ jr., t/^c^a^^c?. 

She was the wife of William Hadley, jr., of Clinton 
county, Ohio, and daughter of Jonathan and Deborah 
Lindley, late of Orange county, Indiana. She was 
taken from works to rewards after being confined a 
considerable time with dyspepsia. She bore her 
affliction with that patience and quietude which 
become a Christian, in which her mind was often 
evidently clothed with the divine presence. 

About four weeks before her close, as the company 
were sitting around in silence, she, with a sweet and 
impressive voice, spoke as follows: "0 dearest Lord! 
I suffer much bodily pain and affliction, but I never 
have had cause to complain ; for on thee my soul is 
stayed, and I pray thee to preserve me, and enable 
me to bear what seems good unto thee to lay upon 
me. dearest Lord ! carry on thy great work until 
my journey is finished ; and unto thee, Lord, I 
commit both soul and body. I pray thee to be as a 
hedge around my dear husband and our dear little 
lambs, and direct them to thy heavenly kingdom." 
She then said : '^ I could cry aloud to the wiiole world, 
if they could hear me, to ^return, repent and live;' 



SARAH HADLEY5 JR. 15 

for there is war declared against the meek and 
humble followers of Jesus Christ. ! how many 
whom I dearly love have gone astray, far and wide 
into the barren mountains of vain speculations ! ! 
how my spirit mourns for them ! For when the 
messenger shall come, mounted on the pale horse, in 
order to summon them away, to appear before the 
Judge of Heaven and Earth, they will find that these 
high mountains of vain speculations will have to be 
cast down at the feet of Jesus ; and they will have to 
cry mightily unto him for mercy before they can be 
favored to enter into his joy. They will have to con- 
demn the doctrines of Elias Hicks; for though they 
may think these doctrines may do to live by, yet they 
will not do to die by ; but will have to acknowledge 
that the Lamb doth reign." To her husband she 
said : " My dear husband, I know of no time that 
thou couldst have done more for me than thou hast 
done, and the Lord will bless thee therefor. I want 
thee to instruct our dear children to read the Holy 
Scriptures, and to endeavor to implant in their tender 
minds the way of truth as it is in Jesus Christ our 
Lord/' 

At another time, she was drawn forth in supplica- 
tion in the following manner : " Heavenly Father ! 
if it be consistent with thy holy will, remove this my 
poor suffering body to the place appointed, and my 
spirit to thyself in the heavens eternal." After 
which she spoke with much feeling and interest of 



16 SARAH HADLEY, JR 



the loving kindness of the Lord, in bestowing his 
manifold blessings on them ; but expressed ; " I must 
give you all up, for I am going to the Father's house, 
where there are mansions prepared for you and me, to 
meet again, if you keep your places ; and I wish you 
all to give me up cheerfully." 

A few weeks before her departure, after having 
given some directions relative to her interment, she 
broke forth in the love of the Father into songs of 
praise and prayer ; after which she took her husband 
by the hand, and expressed that she knew he loved 
their dear children, and she believed he would take 
good care of them ; and taking the children all 
severally by the hand, she directed them to be good 
children, and serve the Lord Jesus Christ, who suffered 
and died on Mount Calvary to save their souls from 
sin ; to love one another ; for said she : '' I am going 
to leave you ; be good and obedient to your father." 

One evening a number of Friends called to see her. 
She stated to them, that her mind had been still and 
quiet, and the presence of the Lord had overshadowed 
her ; after which she supplicated as follows : " gra- 
cious Father ! if it be consistent with thy holy will, 
cut short thy work in mercy, and remove this poor 
suffering body, that I may pass from works to rewards, 
' where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary 
are at rest.' " 

About a week before her departure, she was taken 
with alarming symptoms of death. She desired some 



SARAH HADLEY, JR. 17 

of her particular friends sent for, which was done ; 
she then expressed her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ 
in the following manner : " I know that our Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ, who suffered and died on Mount 
Calvary, cried to his Father and gave up the ghost. 
Lord ! remember me, a poor suffering one, and when 
thou seest that I have suffered sufficiently, I know 
that thou wilt be pleased to release me." And con- 
tinuing, she said : " Oh, who can deny the Lord that 
bought them ; for he is my Redeemer, the Author 
and Finisher of my faith, and I wish the whole world 
could know that he is my Mediator and my Redeemer ; 
and I think none can deny this^ when they come to 
see things as they are ; and, gracious Lord ! how 
can so many deny thy name, since thou, by the shed- 
ding of thy blood upon the cross, hast purchased re- 
demption for all men !" 

Thus we have evidence of her departure out of 
time, triumphing in the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ 
agreeably to the doctrine of the apostle : " Being jus- 
tified freely by his grace, through the redemption that 
is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth to be a 
propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his 
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, 
through the forbearance of God. To declare, I say, at 
this time, his righteousness, that he might be just, and 
the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." — Rom. 
iii, 24, 25, 26. In which confidence and the rejoic- 
ing of hope she continued firm unto the end, and 



18 JOSEPH CLOUD. 

quietly departed this life on the 28th of the 
Fourth month, 1829, in the thirty-thkd year of her 
age. 



JOSEPH CLOUD. 

The T-estimony of Miami Monthly Meeting of Friends^ 
concerning Joseph Cloud. 

Ai^THOUGH several years have passed away since the 
decease of this our beloved friend, yet we feel a lively 
remembrance of him, and, in the love of the gospel, 
such unity with his ministerial labors, (the recollec- 
tion of which hath an edifying tendency on some of 
our minds), that we believe it right to prepare some- 
thing by way of testimony concerning him. " The 
memory of the just is blessed," and " the righteous 
shall be in everlasting remembrance." — Prov. x, 7. 
Ps. cxii, 6. 

According to his own account, he was born of pro- 
fessing parents, Mordecai and Abigail Cloud, in Ches- 
ter county, Pennsylvania^ in the fore part of the Third 
month, 1742. His father died when Joseph was very 
young ; his mother lived until he was near fifteen 
years old, and labored to bring him up in a religious 
way; often endeavoring to impress the fear of God on 
his mind, and to restrain him from wildness and folly, 



JOSEPH CLOUD. 19 

toward which he was much inclined. He spoke of the 
exercises of his dear mother on her death bed ; of her 
earnest prayers and intercessions to the Lord for his 
preservation in the right way ; of her saying she should 
leave him to the Lord, as being, at the time of writing, 
fresh in his mind. He writes thus concerning his situ- 
ation after her death : 

" I was left without any one to restrain me from 
the gratification of my own will, having a propensity 
thereto equal to most. Yet the Lord was gracious to 
me, often visiting my soul with his humbling, heart- 
tendering goodness, whereby I was brought to confess 
my many transgressions, and to enter into covenant 
with God that I would do so no more. But not enough 
abiding in a state of watchfulness, my natural propen- 
sity being active, I often fell into the snare of the 
enemy; in which state I often mourned, when the 
Lord was pleased to look down and show me how far 
short I had fallen of my promises. Through the 
subtlety of the enemy moving on my own will, I was 
almost ready to give out, and to think that I should 
never know an overcoming of the temptations and 
besetments with which my poor soul was beset. Yet, 
the Lord was pleased not to withdraw from me the 
kind reproof of his unspeakable mercy. Although 
by rejecting the many oflers of grace and pardon for 
transgression past, I continued in the state of disobe- 
dience for some years, yet mercy was still continued ; 
and in this, the Lord who is just in all his ways, was 



20 JOSEPH CLOUD. 

pleased to appear by his heart-tendering visitation to 
my soul by which I undoubtedly understood that 
this was the last time my soul should have the like 
offer ; which was indeed very alarming to my mind, 
on looking toward the boundlessness of eternal misery. 
My soul was, therefore, humbled, and my heart 
strengthened to ask help of the Lord my God whom 
I feared and loved; taking fresh resolution to cast 
by every sin and every temptation that had so long 
beset me, and detained me in a state of disobedience ; 
looking close to the light or grace that had so long 
reproved me. 

" Experience now taught that I could not resist the 
temptations but by the power of God : I found that I 
must endeavor to meditate on the Lord in watching 
and prayer ; and as I attended thereto, I was helped 
to pray in faith^ and to believe that he would help 
and preserve; which was experienced by me. It 
afforded me great encouragement that I had found 
one that was mighty to save, in which my heart did 
rejoice in thankfulness to God for his great mercy to 
my soul. I have ever experienced that the more I 
was concerned to live near to the spirit of God in my 
heart, the weaker temptations were, and the more 
strength and faith I was favored with, to travel on in 
a state of self-denial. But even here there is need of 
watchfulness ; for the grand enemy of my soul is an 
unwearied one. 

^^As I went on, the Lord, by his spirit, begot faith 



JOSEPH CLOUD. 21 

in my heart to believe that one day he would require 
of me, though a contemptible instrument, to preach 
the gospel, and to tell others what the Lord had done 
for my soul. This I often concluded I could not do, 
for it was to me a very serious subject ; yet there was 
no doubt in my mind that it was from the Lord. 
But Divine Wisdom was pleased to condescend to my 
weakness, and to open my understanding in matters 
of doctrine, when at home about my lawful calling, 
which tended to strengthen my faith in God, and also 
to humble my heart to trust in him, begetting a wil- 
lingness to obey. But when the time came, I was 
afraid of being deceived by the transformer ; in con- 
sequence of which I withheld ; which brought a cloud 
of thick darkness over my mind, in which I labored 
several weeks. 

" But the Lord was pleased, in a powerful manner, 
to remove all doubts and lears out of the way, and to 
restore sweet grace to my mind ; for which my heart 
was truly thankful under a promise of obedience in 
future. But when the time came, cowardice came 
also. It was so great a cross, that I sat and reasoned 
during the most of that meeting, until the visitation 
passed over. Then, 0, the sorrow and the horror that 
attended my mind, under a sense of disobedience, 
which was poured into my poor soul ! In this state I 
chose death rather than life : but the Lord, who is 
abundant in mercy, saw that my disobedience was 
more from fear than willful stubbornness, and was still 

o 
O 



22 JOSEPH CLOUD. 

gracious to me ; and that judgment I did rejoice to 
feel when I had trangressed ; experience now having 
taught me, that through judgment sin was taken 
away. I can truly say, that I was willing to do the 
best I could in this as well as other matters ; but the 
work that I was called to appeared to be of so great 
importance, that I was afraid that by some of my con- 
duct, the truth, or the cause of God, which was very 
near my life, might be evilly spoken of; but still my 
God called for obedience. 

" One day as I sat in a meeting, my exercises re- 
turned with weight, and a few words of the goodness 
of the Lord to my soul rested heavily on my mind, 
which to deliver was a great cross to me ; but my 
Master was merciful, and he helped me. How I came 
on my feet I hardly knew; but in much fear and 
trembling a few words fell from my lips. Now the 
peace that flowed in my soul is past my describing ; 
and I felt thankfulness of heart that I had been en- 
abled in some measure to fulfill my duty^ there being 
so great a difference between feehng stillness and 
peace of soul — a love flowing in my heart to God and 
man, and that of feeling horror, vexation, and judg- 
ment, which I had felt before for cowardice. The work 
of the ministry being of so great concernment ; the 
honor of God — the good of mankind — the peace and 
advancement of our own souls — seem all to be so 
nearly concerned, that those who do minister have 
need to be diligent in themselves to live near to God 



JOSEPH CLOUD. 23 

by his spirit, that they may be favored with the mind 
of wisdom, to opea to them the states of the people 
to whom they minister. When there is a leaning to 
our own wisdom or understanding in this important 
work, it brings death and darkness on the minds of 
the people, which is wounding to the cause in which 
we are engaged. 

" Notwithstanding the peace and stillness which my 
soul possessed, together with a hearty resolution never 
to be disobedient again to so gracious a Lord and 
Master, when the time came that my Master called 
for obedience in the like concernment, the cross was 
very great to me ; but the remembrance of my former 
transgressions, accompanied with a fear of again trans- 
gressing against such a gracious and merciful God, 
were such that in much fear I stammered out a few 
sentences again, which afforded sweet consolation to 
my mind. 

" In these exercises I can truly say that I was dis- 
posed to do the will of God according to the little 
knowledge received ; but for want of keeping enough 
in the true humility and watchfulness my zeal and 
love abated : in which state I was much lost to the 
presence of Him whom my soul had loved above all 
changeable things, so that I was brought to doubt 
when the Lord was pleased to afford my soul a ray of 
light ; and a thought arose whether this was not of 
the enemy, to disturb my mind. But as my mind was 
favored, with a degree of stillness, I remembered that 



24 JOSEPH CLOUD. 

it made the like impressions as in the day of my first 
visitation ; namely, to reprove for sin ; which merciful 
visitation I was made willing to close in with, and 
again to renew my covenant with God, who is a cove- 
nant-keeping God, and leaves none that dedicate the 
whole heart to him. But when other beloveds take 
too much place in the heart, his Holy Spirit withdraws 
from us, and leaves us in a state of darkness — which 
I have often felt, yet, magnified be his adorable good- 
ness, whose rod hath been my great preserver, that I 
am favored with a grain of faith, by which I have a 
heart to praise him for the continuation of his favors 
to my soul." 

He does not state his age at the time of those ex- 
ercises, neither in what part of the country he then 
lived. It appears that he removed fi:om Pennsylvania 
shortly after his marriage and settled within the limits 
of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in North Carolina; 
whether he was living there at the time we know not. 
But continuing under the forming hand of Almighty 
Goodness, he grew in his gift, and became an able 
minister of the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
Christ ; eminently favored with the demonstration of 
the spirit and power to accompany his public testi- 
monies. 

While a member of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, 
and between the years of 1794 and 1801 he was con- 
cerned to travel much ; visiting, in gospel love, and 
with the concurrence of his friends at home, most of 



JOSEPH CLOUD. 25 

the meetings of Friends then on this continent, and 
very often holding meetings among those of other re- 
ligious denominations, frequently where Friends had 
never been before. In many of these, he was favored 
with power from on high to preach the gospel to the 
edification and tendering of many minds. In the 
year 1800, traveling in Truth's service in the State 
of Kentucky, and going from one place to another 
holding meetings, he came to Washington, in Mason 
county, where having a meeting, and hearing of a 
Friend who lived a few miles from the town (probably 
the only family of Friends living in that State), he 
went to see him ; and being informed of a few fami- 
lies of Friends living on the Little Miami River, in 
the Northwestern Territory, as it was then called, now 
the State of Ohio, he concluded he must visit those 
parts. The Friend at whose house he then was, ac- 
companied him as far as the town of Waynesville,"^ 
where our friend observes in the account he kept of 
his travels : " We had three solid, humbling, consoling 
meetings, wherein Truth arose to the tendering of 
many hearts. May the praise be ascribed to the 
Almighty Author of all our mercies !" These meet- 
ings, with some he held on his way hither, appear to 



* The first meeting for worsliip settled within the limits of Indi- 
ana Yearly Meeting was at this place, and was called Miami^ as also 
the first Preparative, Monthly, and Quarterly Meetings. The 
Monthly Meeting was first held in the Tenth month, 1803. 



26 JOSEPH CLOUD. 

have been the first that were ever held by any Friend 
within the limits of Indiana Yearly Meeting ; no meet- 
ing at that time being settled in any part thereof or 
even held by indulgence. 

In 1801 he obtained the concurrence of his friends to 
pay a religious visit to Friends and others in England, 
Ireland, etc., and embarked at New York for Liverpool, 
where he arrived on the 26th of the Third month, 1802. 
After visiting some meetings in England, he took 
passage for Ireland, and arrived at Dublin on the 27th 
of the Sixth month following. In attending the 
meetings there he speaks of having close work in some 
of them " in searching out the hidden works of dark- 
ness." Thence traveling to several places, he makes 
the following observations : 

" There has taken place, in this part of the world, 
a libertine spirit, or something of deistical principles, 
and many have left the society and turned back to 
the gratifications of their own minds ; this being the 
consequence of living in formahty and not being ex- 
perienced in the faith that overcomes the world, or 
not enough abiding under the direction thereof, that 
when trials come, their foundation being on the sand, 
they totter, and sometimes fall." 

Passing from one meeting to another, he frequently 
makes mention of " the hidden works of darkness ; the 
mystery of iniquity^' etc. We think it right to make 
the following extracts from the accounts he left of his 
travels, more particularly on account of his being there 



JOSEPH CLOUD. 



27 



very shortly after the separation of many of the mem- 
bers from our Society, in that country, in which there 
appears to be a striking similarity to what has latterly 
befallen the Society in many parts of the United 
States of America. 

"Being at Garryroign/' he says, "my mind was led 
to search out the mystery of iniquity in a very singu- 
lar manner ; and to bring into view the deceptions of 
the enemy, in which the minds of mankind are de- 
ceived ; also to hold out to them the way and the 
means by which all might be brought back and re- 
stored into the simplicity of the Truth. A seed of 
infidelity hath taken place in Ireland, in which, to 
appearance, many valiants have fallen, or been swept 
away in the stream of separation or self-exaltation." 
At Lurgan, he makes this observation : 
" The state of society is very low in these parts, 
many being gone into more freedom than truth allows : 
having attained to such a degree of perfection in them- 
selves, that they say it is but a lifeless form from 
which they have separated themselves. The minis- 
ters and elders are the principal leaders in this busi- 
ness; by which a wonderful desolation hath taken 
place. ' Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed 
lest he fall' — 1 Cor. x, 12. I am well assured that 
had this been the case, there would not have been 
such a desolation among us, as a rehgious Society, in 
this part of the land ; in which the enemy hath pre- 
vailed so far, as, with the sweep of his tail, to cast 



28 JOSEPH CLOUD. 

down many who have been as stars in the firmament 
of Almighty Power. 

" Being at Lisburn, and feeling a draft of mind to 
return to the Monthly Meeting held at Grange, which 
was twenty-six miles back, I attended thereto. It 
appeared to be a very searching time in which the 
works of darkness seemed to be brought into view 
and reproof was administered, as also encouragement 
to some, whose minds seemed to sink under the prev- 
alence of wrong things. A spirit of revolting hath 
taken place in this part of the world, in which many 
are taken and led away from the love of the brother- 
hood. 

" Staying there on First-day, it proved to be a day 
of as close labor as I have most ever known. The 
abomination of desolation, and the deceit of the devil, 
propagated by the children of men, under sanction 
of the liberty of the spirit of God, are endeavoring to 
abolish all order or government in the church ; by 
which many are deceived, and led to separate from 
the body of Friends." 

After travehng about three months in Ireland, he 
sailed for Scotland, and continued in the discharge of 
his duty, until he had visited nearly all the meetings 
of Friends in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 
and also had many meetings with those not of our 
Society. 

In some towns he felt drawn to declare the Truth, 
or preach in their public streets and markets ; which 



JOSEPH CLOUD. 29 

as he attended to, he was favored with the Lord's 
helping hand to carry him through to his own peace, 
and the instruction and satisfaction of the people. 

Having spent two years and some months in those 
countries, and feeling himself clear of the weight of 
exercise which had long rested on his mind, he em- 
barked for his native land, and arrived at New York 
in the Ninth month, 1804. After attending a few 
meetings in that city, he went to Philadelphia, and 
visited all the meetings in that city and some in the 
neighborhood, then attended Baltimore Yearly Meet- 
ing, also some meetings within its limits, on his way 
home, where he arrived in peace of mind in the 
Eleventh month following. 

He again felt it his duty early in the next year to 
visit some of the meetings in his own State (North 
Carolina), and also some in Virginia. Having the 
concurrence of his Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, 
he attended thereto, and returned home in the Eighth 
month, 1805. In the autumn of the same year, he 
removed and settled in the compass of this meeting, 
where he continued to reside the remainder of his use- 
ful life. He traveled no more in Truth's service, fur- 
ther than to fulfill the appointments which he was under 
in the church. 

He was a man of good natural abilities, though very 

little improved by school education ; yet such was the 

depth of his religious experience, and attainments in 

the school of Christ, through the qualifying influence 
4 



50 JOSEPH CLOUD, 

of the grace of God in his own heart, that he was 
fitted and prepared for much usefulness in the church; 
in which it may be said that he stood a faithful father 
and pillar, favored in a good decree with clearness in 
discerning spirits. 

For several years of the latter part of his life he 
labored under much w^eakness of body, which gradu- 
ally increased upon him. 

On Fourth-day of the week before his decease, he 
attended meeting for the last time and was enabled to 
bear a very lively public testimony therein. 

He was confined to his bed about ten days, in which 
he appeared to be favored with a peaceful stillness, and 
quietly departed this life at his own house, in Warren 
county, in the State of Ohio, about three miles from 
Waynesville, on the 24th of the Seventh month, 1816, 
in the seventy-fifth year of his age ; and was interred 
in Friends' burying-ground at this place. 

In addition to the preceding testimony, we think it 
proper to state, for the sake of general information, 
that at the time of the decease of this our dear friend, 
there were so many among us as then in membership, 
to whom his plain and honest dealing had given of- 
fense, that it was not thought expedient, at that time, 
to ofier any memorial. And it is worthy of remark, 
that most of these have since become the followers of 
Elias Hicks ; and have been disowned by us for openly 
seceding from the doctrines of the Christian religion. 



JOSEPH CLOUD. 31 

as uniformly professed and believed by the Society of 
Friends, from its rise to the present day ; denying 
that the effects of the fall of our first parents ex- 
tended beyond themselves — the existence of a spirit- 
ual adversary separate from man — denying the divin- 
ity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ — discardiDg 
the doctrine of atonement — setting at nought the pro- 
pitiatory sacrifice which Christ made of himself with- 
out the gates of Jerusalem for the sins of the whole 
world — not owning him in his offices of Mediator, In- 
tercessor, and Advocate with the Father : these are 
doctrines which have been dear and precious with all 
pious Christians who have lived since that awful period 
when our Lord said, " It is finished !" when the vail 
of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the 
bottom, and rocks were rent, and graves were opened ; 
many of whom sealed with their blood their testimony 
to the truth of these, and their faith in Him who had 
thus condescended to be made a sin ofiering for 
them. 

It is well remembered by some of us, that those 
offices of Christ, and the offering of himself a sacri- 
fice on Calvary's mount, was a theme which our 
departed friend, in his public testimonies amoug 
us, often dwelt upon with fervor ; quotiug, on these 
points, more particularly from the Epistle to the 
Hebrews, 



32 CALEB HARVEY. 



CALEB HAEVEY. 

Testimony of Springfield MontJily Meeting^ Ohio^ con- 
cerning Caleb Haryey, deceased. 

Our beloved friend Caleb Harvey was born in 
Orange county and State of North Carolina, on the 
21st of the Twelfth month, 1776, of rehgious parents, 
and who were members of the Society of Friends. 
His father dying when he was but a child, his educa- 
tion, with that of several other children, devolved 
upon his mother ; by whose pious care he received a 
guarded education, and was trained to industry and 
useful business ; having entered into marriage, he soon 
after removed to the State of Ohio, and settled 
within the part which is now Clinton county, and was 
among the early settlers in this part of the western 
country. 

He was a man of an open and cheerful disposition 
of mind, endowed with a good understanding and en- 
gaging manners, which caused him to be extensively 
known and much esteemed; and having in a good 
degree witnessed an overcoming of the love of the 
world, and experienced a sanctification of spirit by the 
renewing and transforming operation of divine grace, 
he was through life enabled to render extensive and 
acceptible service in the church. 

He was a diligent attender of meetings, weighty 



CALEB HAKVEY. 33 

and exemplary therein ; as an overseer and an elder 
he was serviceable, discharging his duty with vigilance 
and zeal, and yet with tenderness ; being solicitous to 
cherish the germs of life in the returning penitent, 
but sharp in reproving the refractory, and in warning 
the lukewarm, and in his labors was a firm supporter 
of our salutary discipline. 

He was appointed a member of the Committee on 
Indian Civilization by Ohio Yearly Meeting soon after 
the commencement of that concern in said meeting, 
and upon the establishment of Indiana Yearly Meet- 
ing at Whitewater, in the year 1821, the subject of 
Indian civihzation was introduced and a committee 
appointed to co-operate with Ohio and Baltimore 
Yearly Meetings: (their labors being directed more 
particularly to those of the Shawnee tribe on the re- 
servation at Waughpaughkonnetta within the char- 
tered limits of the State of Ohio), he was at this 
meeting again appointed a member of that commit- 
tee ; he continued to labor in the prosecution of the 
concern with zeal and Christian philanthropy, often 
visiting Friends' establishment at Waughpaughkon- 
netta, to advise and assist in endeavoring to amelio- 
rate the condition of the Indians. He also corres- 
ponded with other Friends and with committees of the 
other Yearly Meetings by writing relative thereto, in 
all which he conducted himself in a manner as we be- 
lieve becoming his profession, and the cause in which 
the Society has been engaged, holding the sentiment 



34 CALEB HARVEY. 

that Indian civilization is not impracticable, if pur- 
sued with diligence and energy, especially if govern- 
ment should continue to those people a fostering care, 
and that indulgence which would enable benevolent 
societies engaged on their behalf to complete their 
views. 

In the arduous labor of attending to the concerns 
of the general state of society, and in the duties of 
the Meeting for Sufferings many can bear testimony 
to his usefulness ; being a fellow-laborer in the impor- 
tant concerns in which Friends have been engaged, 
" earnestly to contend for the faith which was once 
delivered unto the saints," and to stand in defense of 
the Gospel. 

His last sickness took place the latter part of the 
Eleventh month, 1830, which at first was thought by 
his family and friends only to be a severe cold, but it 
proved to be a fever. About eight days before his 
departure, some friends called to see him, and were 
sitting quietly in the room. He remarked that amidst 
his bodily afflictions it was a comfort to his mind to 
feel a firm reliance on the Lord Jesus Christ as a 
Saviour that would never deceive him, and the nearer 
he approached an awful eternity the more firmly he 
felt an establishment in the faith and hope of the 
gospel ; and that Jesus Christ was the only Saviour. 
He then adverted to several suitable passages of Scrip- 
ture proving his eternal divinity — his propitiatory sacri- 
fice upon the cross for the sins of the world, adding — 



ANNA LINDLEY. 35 

" That in that awful time of conflict, nnder which, 
without a change, his bodily constitution soon must 
sink, he felt him to be an all-sufficient Saviour ; and 
that he dare not make any separation between Jesus 
of Nazareth and Jesus Christ the Saviour of the 
world." — John iv, 42. Acts iii, 6. 

On the evening of the 12th day of the Twelfth 
month, 1830, he departed this life, laying down his 
head in peace, and, as we believe, entering into rest 
with the Lord, 



ANNA LINDLEY. 

A Testimony of Blue B.iver 3font]ily Meeting of 
Friends^ concerning Anna Lindley, deceased. 

She was born in Wayne county. North Carolina, the 
7th day of the Fourth month, 1797. Her parents, 
Joseph and Sarah Arnold, were Friends in good es- 
teem. As she yielded obedience to divine instruction 
in her youthful days, she witnessed a growth and ad- 
vancement in the life of true religion ; and, through 
its powerful operations, became a useful and exemplary 
member in the church. 

In the year 1824, she removed with her parents, 
and settled within the limits of this meeting. Soon 
after which, the doctrines of Elias Hicks were dissem- 
inated in these parts ; and on reading the first volume 



36 ANNA LINDLEY. 

of his sermons, she gave way to doubts concerning 
some of the essential doctrines of the Christian reli- 
gion, especially in regard to the divinity of our Lord 
and Saviour Jesus Christ, and his propitiatory sacrifice 
on the cross for the sins of the world ; which, as she 
afterward expressed, brought great darkness and deep 
distress over her mind. But as her prayers were of- 
fered up to the God and Father of all our sure mer- 
cies. He was pleased to show her the danger of such 
sentiments, and speak peace to her tried mind ; for 
which she often expressed great thankfulness of heart. 
And when the separation took place in our meeting, she 
stood firm with Friends in the support of the doctrines 
of Christianity, and was very useful in dealing with 
those that went off in the separation. 

In the Eighth month, 1826, she was married to 
Thomas Lindley, and entered into the cares of a fam- 
ily, and proved herself well qualified for such a charge; 
her deportment and conversation being grave and 
solid, yet affable and instructive, which much endeared 
her to her family and friends. She was a lover of the 
Holy Scriptures, and in the daily practice of reading a 
portion thereof to her family, convened for that purpose ; 
and near her close, expressed thankfulness that she had 
been faithful therein. Adding, " I have often felt the 
cross in it, but by attending thereto, I have expe- 
rienced peace of mind ; and I believe it has been one 
great means of preservation to me." 

In the year 1830, she was attacked with a linger- 



ANNA LINDLEY. 37 

ing disease, which caused much bodily affliction dur- 
ing the remainder of her life, >Yhich she bore with 
resigoation and Christian fortitude. And, notwith- 
standing her bodily infirmity, she irequently attended 
our meetings, expressing she never felt better than 
when assembled for divine worship, in which she some- 
times expressed a few words to the edification of her 
friends. 

During her illness she often appeared in suppHca- 
tion, and uttered many weighty expressions, which we 
beheve may be useful to posterity — and which are in 
substance as follows : 

When some Friends called to see her, she expressed, 
" What a great consolation, that I can now look to my 
Saviour as one that is not only man, but the Mighty 
God, also, who is able to save all that come unto Him 
with atf everlasting salvation. And blessed be his 
holy name, I feel Him near in my present affliction." 
To her parents she said : " Several of our family are 
gone, and we have no reason to doubt their happiness ; 
I have only lived to a middle age, and believe I shall 
go next ; yet I feel such sweet peace of mind, that I 
believe the change will be for the better, and I desire 
you to give me up freely, and not lament, but rather 
rejoice." 

At another time she said, '' I feel the prayers of 
my friends, sitting in silence around me, to the rejoic- 
ing of my heart." To her mother she said, " Thou 
has been a tender mother to me, for which I thank the 



38 ANNA LINDLEY. 

Lord." A young Friend being about to take leave of 
her, she said, " Farewell ! I desire thee to walk in the 
ways of the Lord, for his yoke is easy and his burden 
light I know the paths of youth are beset with 
many snares ; there are many ways to draw the ten- 
der mind from its Saviour. ^Be thou faithful in the 
little, and thou shalt be made ruler over much.' Re- 
member David's advice to his son Solomon : ' My son 
know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with 
a perfect heart, and with a willing mind : if thou seek 
him, he will be found of thee ; but if thou forsake 
him, he will cast thee off forever!' My dear, I de- 
sire thou shouldst live in the fear of the Lord, which 
is the beginning of wisdom." 

Twenty-first of the Fifth month, 1832, suffering 
under extreme pain, she said she should not recover, 
and desired to be resigned to her Master's will. 
Twenty-second she seemed sensible her end was near; 
and desired that everything relating to her interment 
should be plain and simple. Tw^enty-third in the 
morning, after laying still some time, she broke forth 
in supplication, in the following manner : " My de- 
pendence is on thee, glorious Father ! if it be con- 
sistent with thy holy will, cut short thy work in mercy, 
and relieve this poor suffering body, that I may pass 
from works to rewards, though not my will but thine 
be done." 

In the evening, several Friends being present, she 
was drawn in love toward them, and favored to give 



ANNA LINDLEY. 39 

much pertinent counsel, especially to the young peo- 
ple, saying, " It is a great relief to my mind, that I 
am favored with strength to express myself to my 
friends." After which she requested her step-daugh- 
ters to come and sit by her, saying, "My dear chil- 
dren, you have been good to me ; and I have en- 
deavored to bring you up in plainness, and to reading 
the Holy Scriptures, in which I desire you to con- 
tinue. Do not be led away by the vain fashions of 
the world, as they cannot avail you anything in that 
awful day which is approaching ; but choose the Lord 
for your portion, and the God of Jacob for the lot of 
your inheritance." 

Twenty-seventh, early in the morning she said to 
her husband, "I have suffered much through the 
night, but I feel the love of the Saviour to me, and 
that all my transgressions are blotted out." And 
prayed that her patience might hold out to the end, 
saying, " Why should I complain ? My sufferings are 
nothing to compare with my Redeemer's, when he bore 
the sins of the world in his body on the tree," Soon 
after observed to a Friend, who expected to be absent 
several days, that she hoped the conflict w^ould be over 
before his return ; but desired to be resigned to the 
Master's will ; and if she should see him no more in 
this world, she wanted him to encourage the family she 
was about to leave, as well as the other young Friends 
of the neighborhood, in the best things, as he had fre- 
quent opportunities with them. 



40 ANNA LINDLEY. 

In the evening she grew worse, and several times 
her breath appeared quite gone, but she revived again, 
and imparted much weighty counsel to those present ; 
warning them to prepare for such a trial as they then 
witnessed, that they might know a being delivered 
from sin and transgression, and prepared for a happy 
immortality- Then said, '' Oh ! where does strength 
come from, that I am thus favored ! — from Him who 

is ALL STRENGTH !" 

28th. On seeing her husband much tried, she said, 
"My dear, don't be troubled; but submit to the 
Lord's will, and give me up freely." Next day she 
was in much bodily pain until about two o'clock, then 
appeared more easy, and asked the time of day ; on 
being told, she turned to the other side of the bed, 
and expressed thankfulness that she had been favored 
with patience to the end. Then raised her hands in 
supplication, saying, "Lord receive my soul!" and 
quietly departed the 29th of the Fifth month, 1832, 
aged thirty-five years, one month, and twenty-two 
days. 

The day following, her remains were interred in 
Friends' burying-ground, at Blue River, where a 
solemn was meeting was held, and several weighty 
testimonies borne. 



NARCISSA OSBbRN. 41 



NARCISSA OSBORN, 

Memorial of Springfield Monthly Meeting^ Indiana^ 
concerning Narcissa Osborn, decerned. 

Narcissa Osborn, daughter of Charles and Hannah 
Osborn, of Economy, Indiana, died on the morning of 
the 31st of Eighth month, 1835, aged twenty-one 
years, two months and eleven days. In her child- 
hood, she was of a very lively disposition, more so 
than what is common to be met with in children. 
She was sent to school as the circumstances of her 
parents would admit; and having learned to read 
with considerable ease and propriety, she became fond 
of books, and devoted many of her leisure hours to 
the perusal of them. When she was about sixteen 
years old, she undertook and read the Bible regularly 
through, and part through again. This she did at 
intervals, when not engaged in the necessary work of 
the family; much of which devolved on her, she 
being the oldest of the children then at home. Often, 
when the business of the day was gone through, she 
would sit up reading in the Bible until it was quite 
late. Among the other books which she used to 
read, " Youthful Piety " appeared to be a particular 
favorite. She was as dihgent in the attendance of 
religious meetings as her circumstances and those of 
the family would admit; and, notwithstanding her 



42 NARCISSA OSBORN. 

natural lively disposition, she did not manifest the 
same desire to depart from plainness in dress as some 
of her equals were accustomed to do. 

She was taken unwell, when from home at West 
Grove Monthly Meeting, on the second Seventh-day 
in the Eleventh month, 1834. She came home, and, 
though still unwell, kept up mostly for about two 
weeks ; at which time she grew worse, and was con- 
fined to her bed and room about six weeks; then 
getting better, so she could be up most of her time, 
and both ride and walk out a little, she attended 
meetings a few times. Hopes of her recovery were 
now entertained both by the family and physician, 
who attended on her. She continued in this state, 
during the spring and forepart of summer, until about 
the 1st of Seventh month, 1835, when she was again 
taken worse, and appeared to decline faster than she 
had done before. 

Her complaint, which was thought to be an affec- 
tion of the liver, not appearing to yield to medical 
treatment, another physician was called to see her. 
He appeared to entertain some hope of her recovery, 
and did what he could for her; but she still grew 
worse ; though at times, in the progress of the dis- 
ease, she would appear to be a little better. Her 
stomach appearing to resist all kinds of nourish- 
ment, her little remaining strength diminished, and 
spells of difficulty of breathing came on, and con- 
sidering her weak state, her father regarded the 



NARCISSA OSBORN. 43 

frequent occurrence of these spells as a symptom of 
her approaching dissolution; and feeling much con- 
cern on her account, and being very desirous for her 
future happiness, asked her what her prospects were 
relative to getting well. She replied, in substance, 
that when she felt some better, she thought she 
should recover, and appeared to manifest a backward- 
ness to converse on the subject, and no more was said 
at that time. 

She had manifested, through the greater part of 
her illness, that she desired to get well, and that for 
the most part, she cherished the hope that she should 
be favored to recover. But still growing weaker, and 
her sufferings greater, it appeared that after having 
passing through a night of great suffering, she had 
lost all, or nearly all hope that she should ever again 
be restored to health. 

On the morning of the next day, which was sixth 
day, the 28th of Eighth month, as her father was 
sitting by her, and she being favored with a Httle 
ease, he spoke ^ to her concerning the prospect of her 
approaching dissolution. She then stated that she 
would be glad how soon if she were only prepared, 
which she desired above all things in this world, and 
was very much affected. Her father, on hearing 
these expressions from her, accompanied with so 
much tenderness, endeavored to comfort her, by tell- 
ing her "the Lord is merciful," and advising her to 
strive to have her mind stayed on Him, and to put 



44 NARCISSA OSBORN. 

her trust in Him^ and look forward to a glorious and 
happy futurity^ etc. She appeared to pass through 
this day with less apparent suffering than was given 
her to endure through the preceding night At 
times, she was able to converse intelUgibly, with a 
clear and pretty strong voice, and appeared quite 
sensible of her approaching death. At one time, she 
said : " I have been too anxious to get well, and have 
not thought enough about dying." Her father, 
speaking to her, told her that she had been a good 
girl, and that she had been good to him. She 
replied: "I have not been half good enough; and 
if I were to recover, I would be much better to 
you all/' 

Seventh-day, 29th. — Having spells of comparative 
ease, at one time, she vocally supplicated with a clear 
and very affecting voice. In the forepart of which 
she very fully confessed that she was unworthy the 
least of the Lord's mercies; then, after a short pause, 
she continued : " But there is a hope." Then, in 
very appropriate language, adverted to him who died 
on Calvary for sinners — besought him to intercede 
for her, and take her into his glorious kingdom, where 
" the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are 
at rest ;" then, after a short pause, she repeated the 
following Hues, viz : 

" Jesus can make a dying bed 

Feel soft as downy pillows are ; 
While on his breast I lean my head, 
And breathe my life out sweetly there." 



NARCISSA OSBORN. 45 

At another time, the family being about her, she 
said: "It is hard to part with you all" After a 
short pause, she added: "Oh! I hope to meet you 
all in heaven." 

After this, she professed to have a hope that all 
would be well with her ; but not that assurance which 
some had professed, and which she most ardently 
craved. Sometime in the course of this evening, she 
expressed a desire to live another night, evidently 
becausa she wanted further evidence in her own mind 
of her acceptance before her close. To some young 
women who came to see her, she spoke in a very 
affecting manner of their fashions in dress, teUing 
them that when they should come to be in her situa- 
tion, they would not care for fashions, nor anything 
else this world can afford, but for their souls. At 
another time, she spoke about some at Richmond, 
with whom she was acquainted, with much feeling and 
affection. Her father then asked her if he should 
give her love to her friends and acquaintances. She 
replied : " Oh, yes, and to everybody." 

In the evening, one of the doctors who was tending 
on her came in, to whom she said, alluding to him 
and the other : " You have done all you could for me, 
and likely I shall not live to see another morning's 
light" He said: "Perhaps not; I hope you are 
resigned." She answered : "I want to be." 

To her father she said : " Oh ! if I could have 
rest." He rephed that he thought her rest would 
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46 NARCISSA OSBORN. 

soon come. She said : " Dost thou think so, father. 
Oh ! that would be the best of rest." After a severe 
spell of pain, she said : " Oh ! how hard for human 
nature ; but I suppose there is nothing put upon us 
but what we are able to bear." She was reminded of 
the sufferings of our Saviour for her, and that those 
sufferings, which are but momentary and of short 
duration, work for us a far more exceeding and 
eternal weight of glory, etc. Getting some easier, 
she said : " Dost thou think, my dear father, that I 
can be saved — I don't want to be deceived in myself'' 
Then clasping his hands in hers, and looking him 
steadfastly in the face, said: "Let us pray." He 
knelt down by her bedside and vocally supplicated to 
this purport — that she might be enabled patiently to 
endure her affliction and wait the Lord's time ; that 
it was through his mercy she could obtain rest ; that 
the Lord would encamp around her with the guardian 
angel of his holy presence ; that, if it pleased Him, 
He would grant her an easy passage, and be with her 
through the valley and shadow of death; that He 
would grant her the evidence of her acceptance with 
Him, and receive her departing soul into his everlast- 
ing kingdom. She said : " Lord, receive my spirit." 
She then remained quiet, with her eyes closed for 
awhile, when all around her thought she was depart- 
ing. However, after a time of silence, she opened 
her eyes and said: "I feel quite easy;" and asked 
her father if he did not think that a favorable sign. 



NARCISSA OSBORN. 47 

He replied^ he thought it was, and that it was through 
mercy she obtained it. 

It appeared that the Lord, in his unmerited mercy, 
was pleased to grant unto her that assurance of that 
acceptance with Him which she so ardently craved, 
and for which she wished to live another night ; and 
for a time she was favored with some comparative ease 
and rest. But toward the latter part of the night, 
her sufferings again became great. 

First-day, 30th. — This morning she revived a little, 
and, though very weak, could speak quite intelligibly, 
and appeared to be in a sweet frame of mind. One 
of her uncles came to see her, and asked her how she 
was. She said: "I am going to die," and added, 
'' but I have a hope that I shall be happy." At which 
he was much affected, and said to this amount : " Thy 
friends have the same hope concerning thee." She 
said : " We must all die." About twelve o'clock she 

addressed him in nearly these words : " Uncle , 

I love thee, and know thou hast many good thoughts 
about thy heart. ! do become religious and go to 
meetings. Tell Aunt — — and all the children that 
I love them, and desire their welfare." She then in- 
quired for one of her little brothers, who came in; she 
said to him : " Why don't thee come in and see me 
oftener ? ! I want thee to be a good boy, and 
mind what is said to thee, and go to meeting when- 
ever father tells thee to." She then inquired for her 
two youngest sisters, who were brought. To the 



48 NARCISSA OSBORN. 

younger she said : " Here is my little sister corae to 
see me, and I am going to die and leave her." She 
then kissed her. Then speaking to the other, told 
her '' to be a good child and mind her mother, and not 
cry so about her." She then informed that the chil- 
dren might leave the room, as noise disturbed her. 
She then requested her mother and the rest of them 
not to take it so hard, saying, " she should shortly be 
out of this world of trouble." Her father, seeing her 
sufferings, and feeling a near sympathy for his dying 
child, was moved once more to kneel at her bedside, 
and vocally to supplicate on her behalf, that if it was 
the Lord's will her end might shortly come, that the 
work might be shortened in righteousness ; that his 
afflicted child might be loosed from her pains; that 
she might be enabled to safely pass the swelling floods 
of Jordan, and be landed on his Canaan, where she 
might join with angels and archangels in songs of 
never-ending glory, praising redeeming love. Then, 
after a short pause, she sang in a clear and reaching 
voice : 

" Angels shall bear my soul away, 
To realms of bliss in* endless day." 

Then, after a pause, she added : 

*• Then I shall be forever blest, 
Partaker of his righteousness." 

After many prayerful expressions, she called the 
attention of the people and said : " I want you all to 



NARCISSA OSBORN. 49 

remember what I say, and think of these things while 
in health, ! then 'tis easy to what it is at such a 
time as this. ! don't put it oi3f as I have done — 
remember the words of a poor dying sister." 

After a short pause, said : " Lord, receive me into 
thy glory." Then shortly after sang: 

" When ten thousand years are gone, 

! I shall happy be ; 
When thousand times ten thousand years 

Have passed away, 
I '11 still be there to see his face 

In endless day." 

Shortly after said : 

" ! there 's mercy, there is mercy 
In thy gates, and peace within thy walls* 

Now it appeared that her work was done, and that 
the Lord, in his infinite mercy, was pleased to give 
her that assurance of everlasting happiness which she 
so earnestly sought. Though at times through the 
night her sufferings w^ere great, she still retained the 
power of speech. Toward the break of day, her 
father asked her if she still felt that the Lord was 
good to her. She replied : " I know he is good to 
me." She continued to evince that death was no 
more a terror to her, until between the hours of six 
and seven in the morning, when she quietly breathed 
her last. A solemn stillness pervaded the minds of all 
present ; a sorrow which indeed was not without hope, 
for it was accompanied with the consoling evidence 



50 MARY ANTHONY, 

that, through the unmerited mercy of our Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ, her immortal spirit was received 
into that glorious '' kingdom prepared for the right- 
eous from the foundation of the world," " where the 
wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at 
rest.'' 



MARY ANTHONY, 

A Testimony of Cincinnati Monthly Meeting of 
Friends^ held IWi of Seventh months 1838, con- 
cerning our esteemed Friend^ Mary Anthony, a 
Member and Elder of said Meeting^ who died 
Sixth month 16^A, 1838, aged eighty-eight years 
and seven months^ 

She was the daughter of Samuel and Hannah Jor- 
dan, and was born in Nansemond county, Virginia, in 
the year 1749, Her father was an approved minister 
in the Society of Friends. Her mother died when 
she was very young, and her father not many years 
after; but their piety and exemplary lives were often 
referred to by her with feelings of gratitude, as a 
means of turning her attention to serious subjects, 
and establishing her principles on that sure foundation 
from which they were never changed. When about 



MARY ANTHONY. 51 

the age of seventeen^ she renounced the gay and fas- 
cinating things of this world, appeared in the plain 
garb of a Friend, and confessed her Lord and Master 
before men ; and such was her devotion and exem- 
plary conduct, that when about twenty-tivOj she was 
appointed to the station of an elder, the important 
duties of which her sound judgment and religious dis- 
cernment enabled her to discharge with much useful- 
ness to society during the remainder of her life. 

At the age of kventy-jive^ she was married to 
Christopher Anthony, an approved minister of the 
gospel, with whom she lived in much harmony and 
love for more than/orzfy years, and was truly an help- 
mate to him, not only in temporal things, but in pro- 
moting his labors in the vineyard of her beloved 
Master. 

In the various relations which she bore to others, 
whether as a parent, a neighbor, or a member of re- 
ligious society, she was governed by the "law of 
kindness," and few have passed through life more 
universally beloved. Her mind was greatly expanded, 
and deeply imbued with Christian feehng — love to 
God and love to man. In her the needy ever found 
a sure and ready friend; her house was for many 
years an agreeable resting-place for those journeying 
in defense of the gospel ; in whose company and con- 
versation she experienced great delight. 

Although she had the charge of a numerous family 
(her husband being frequently absent laboring in sup- 



52 MARY ANTHONY. 

port of the gospel)^ it may be said, that, like Mary 
the sister of Martha, she was not cumbered about 
many things, but had " chosen that good part which 
should not be taken from her." She so fully appre- 
ciated the command, " Thou shalt worship the Lord 
thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve," that every 
other consideration was made to yield to this important 
duty ; hence it is not recollected that her seat was ever 
vacant when meeting time arrived, on account of tem- 
poral concerns, or from the inclemency of the weather. 
She was careful to take her seat in due season, and it 
is believed, ever felt a deep concern to " worship God 
in spirit and in truth ;" and when meeting closed, 
she observed a gravity becoming the occasion. She 
was a great lover of silent tuorship^ and well knew the 
importance of waiting upon God in the silence of all 
flesh for the renewal of her strength. It was her daily 
practice to spend a portion of time in retirement and 
meditation, being careful not to suffer anything to 
divert her from an observance thereof; saying, with 
David, " I will not offer burnt-offerings to the Lord of 
that which costs me nothing." 

When services were assigned her in the church, she 
yielded a ready compliance, without making objections, 
and performed them with alacrity and zeal. And she 
held that all who were appointed to such services, 
should be sound in the faith. 

She was a firm believer in the doctrines of the 
Christian religion, as held by ancient Friends ; and 



MARY ANTHONY. 53 

on one occasion bore this emphatic testimony to their 
excellency — " though they are self-denying doctrines, 
and many there be that fall on the right hand and on 
the left, yet I can set my seal to them, that they 
are no cunningly devised fables, but the everlasting 
truth. I have endeavored, to the best of my ability, 
to live up to them, and am now willing to die by 
them." 

She also bore a decided testimony to the unchange- 
ableness of the doctrines of the Christian religion ; 
she said there w^ere no new doctrines, there could be 
none ; the everlasting gospel, which the angel, flying 
in the midst of heuven, was commissioned to preach 
to them that dwell upon the earth, and to every na- 
tion, kindred, tongue, and people, saying with a loud 
voice, " Fear God, and give glory to him that made 
heaven, and earth, and the fountains of waters," is the 
same gospel that is to be preached now, and to the 
end of the world. 

She often bore testimony to the excellency of the 
Holy Scriptures; she preferred them to all other 
books, and spent much time in their perusal ; and her 
esteem for them appeared to increase with advancing 
years. When near her close she became too weak to 
read them herself, many chapters w^ere daily read to 
her. 

She had an unshaken confidence in the goodness, 
the mercy, and the superintending providence of 
Almighty God ; she believed that every act of dedica- 
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54 MARY ANTHONY. 

tion^ every service done in the church, however small, 
would be duly recompensed ; that " whosoever gave 
to one of the little ones, a cup of cold water only, in 
the name of a disciple, should in no wise lose his 
reward." 

Slavery was considered by her, as an evil of great 
magnitude, and she bore a faithful testimony against 
it. AVhen near her close, she said, she could look 
back with consolation and rejoice, that although she 
had spent a large portion of her life in the midst of 
slavery, she had never participated in the sin of op- 
pression, but that she had acted up to the rule of 
"doing unto others as we would they should do 
unto us." 

In the eighty-fifth year of her age, she attended 
the Yearly Meeting for the last time, and at the con- 
clusion, expressed much thankfulness that she had 
been permitted to meet with her friends in that capa- 
city, and to feel so much love and unity, it being her 
firm conviction, that it was a final separation from 
many of them. She gratefully acknowledged their 
kindness to her, and, as her manner often was, ascribed 
this favor to the goodness and mercy of her Heavenly 
Father, and further said, "though the heavens and 
the earth shall pass away, yet the promises of the 
Almighty remain sure;" "them that honor me, I 
will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly 
esteemed." 

As years increased, her mind was centered more and 



MARY ANTHONr. 55 

more on heaven and heavenly things ; the redemption 
of the soul was a subject that appeared to occupy 
much of her time and attention^ and she often made 
it the occasion for solemn and instructive conversa- 
tion ; every other consideration seemed to be unwor- 
thy of attention, in comparison to securing an interest 
in heaven, where nothing that is impure or unholy can 
enter. Death was viewed by her as an event exceed- 
ingly awful ; she said it was a great thing, a nice point 
to be prepared to die, and she feared many rested in 
a false hope, and that some who are making high pro- 
fessions will, at the "great day," receive the awful 
sentence, " I never knew you : depart from me ye that 
work iniquity !" 

When, through age and infirmity, she became con- 
fined, and was prevented from attending our religious 
meetings, she still retained a deep concern for the 
welfare of society, and her views remained clear, deep, 
and comprehensive on religious subjects. Among 
other things that engaged her attention, she felt and 
expressed a deep concern, that there might be a 
sound and living ministry, and that those, whose duty 
it is, should exercise timely care therein. 

Many were the expressions dropped during her last 
illness, evincing the same lively faith that had been 
her support through life ; and it is believed it will be 
profitable to preserve a few of them. 

To a friend, who expressed much sympathy with 
her, in the great privation of not being able to 



56 MARY ANTHONY. 

attend meeting, she said : " My dear Master knows I 
am not able to go, therefore he will excuse me, and 
I have experienced the Divine presence to be very 
near me in my chamber," She often said, she felt 
the Everlasting arm to be underneath, supporting and 
sustaining her. 

When she heard, that some who had occupied pro- 
minent stations had left our Society, and the spiritu- 
ality of our religion, and had adopted shadows for the 
substance, she expressed her disapprobation, and the 
sorrow which she felt on account of their apostacy, 
and exclaimed, in the language of the apostle, " Why 
turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, 
whereunto some desire to be in bondage." Truth is 
the same : imchangeaUe — though all men forsake it. 

In viewing the approach of death, and speaking 
of the worthlessness of the riches and honors of this 
world, she said : " What would I have to support me 
now, did I not know my foundation to be the Rock 
OF Ages." 

Not long before her close, she was closely tried; 
she was permitted to feel great poverty of spirit, and 
a fear that there yet remained something for her to 
do ; but after being engaged for some time in prayer^ 
she had a remarkable assurance of her acceptance ; 
she said it seemed as though an audible voice had 
spoken in her ear, " be not dismayed, inasmuch as 
thou hast been faithful and retained thy first love, 
when thou passest over this rough Jordan, I will be 



MARY ANTHONY. 57 

with thee^ and its waves shall not overflow thee ; but 
the change for thee shall be most glorious !" And 
such was the effect of this assurance, that she retained 
her confidence to the last. 

In the course of her long confinement, her suffer- 
ings were very great, but she bore them with much 
patience. It is not recollected that a murmur ever 
escaped her lips ; but she frequently adverted to the 
sufferings of her dear Redeemer, and said that hers 
were not to be compared to those which He endured 
for her ; and she several times said, '' death has no 
sting, and the grave will have no victory." She had 
a desire that, when the last hour approached, her mind 
might be preserved in clearness ; and there was abun- 
dant evidence that her prayer was granted. 

In reviewing the life of this heavenly-minded 
woman, the mind rests with satisfaction on the theme. 
If we look through a long succession of years — if we 
look back on the morning of her days ; the meridian 
of her life, or on her setting sun ; through all, we find 
her pursuing the pious, even tenor of her way ; through 
all, we find her the consistent friend, the firm and 
zealous Christian; the humble, dedicated follower 
of a crucified Redeemer; and at the final close, like 
the wise virgins, her vessel filled with oil, her lamp 
trimmed and burning bright; "Her bow abode in 
strength, and the arms of her hands were made strong 
by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob." " The 



58 ENOCH PEARSON. 

eternal God was her refuge, and underneath were the 
everlasting arms." 



ENOCH PEAESON. 

Compiled from a Testimony of Mill Creek Monthly 
Meeting^ Ohio. 

He was the son of Thomas and Ann Pearson, and was 
born in Pennsylvania, on the 27th day of the Ninth 
month, 1761. His parents removed while he was 
young to South Carolina, and settled within the limits 
of Bush River Monthly Meeting, where he was brought 
up. At this place also, he entered into marriage with 
Ann Evans, a member of the same meeting. It ap- 
pears by his manuscripts, that they were in the prac- 
tice of attending the religious meetings of Friends 
pretty regularly, but that his mind was too much 
occupied with the concerns of this world, although he 
maintained a fair character among his acquaintances, 
and was frequently called upon for little services to 
the church. In process of time, he appears to have 
been aroused to some serious thoughtfulness in regard 
to his spiritual condition, by a severe illness which 
came upon his wife, reducing her very low. He was 
made to feel, in degree, the weight of his sins, and to 
see the necessity of a reformation, which he resolved 



ENOCH PEARSON. 59 

to make. His resolutions, however, were of no great 
avail ; for the cares of this life were again suffered to 
get the ascendancy. Afterward, about the thirtieth 
year of his age, he was again, through mercy, visited 
by the convicting power of the Holy Spirit in a re- 
markable manner, showing him the error of his past 
life, and the necessity of regeneration. He w^as en- 
abled to see himself as a child of wrath, and to per- 
ceive his undone condition in case he should be taken 
to eternity without repentance and forgiveness. To 
God he must look for both, through Jesus Christ, as 
there is no other way to salvation. Such was the ten- 
dering power of the Holy Spirit mercifully visiting 
him, that he burst into a flow of tears and wept freely. 
He dwelt under great exercise and much sadness for 
several days, and was enabled to see his sins, and 
made wilhng to forsake them in hearty repentance. 
He states that when in company with others who were 
cheerful, he was borne down as under the weight of a 
mountain. Much distress was permitted to be his 
portion before he came to the enjoyment of true 
peace. But he was not forsaken of divine love and 
mercy. He continued the attendance of religious 
meetings, and read the Holy Scriptures and other 
religious books frequently, much to his instruction and 
satisfaction. He was at length enabled to come to a 
deeper experience of divine love and goodness than 
he had ever done before ; and was then more cheerful, 
and enjoyed meetings for w^orship. 



60 ENOCH PEARSON. 

He experienced various exercises and trials for a 
considerable time; and at length he felt impelled to 
call upon others, in the name of the Lord, to cleanse 
their hands and purify their hearts from the defile- 
ments of sin. It was about a year after he first 
spoke as a minister, before he again opened his mouth 
in that way. His communications for awhile were 
short, but are noted as satisfactory. By abiding lowly 
under the baptisms, and teaching of the good Shep- 
herd and Bishop of souls, he grew in grace and in his 
gift; and his calling and public testimonies were 
acknowledged to be in the life and power of the 
gospel. 

He performed a religious visit, with the approbation 
and to the satisfaction of his Friends, in Georgia and 
Tennessee ; and about the forty-fifth year of his age, 
he removed with his family to Ohio, and settled in 
Miami county, which was then a newly settled coun- 
try. At that time, no meeting of Friends was held 
nearer than West Branch, which he attended until 
others were estabhshed. Friends having increased in 
those parts. Mill Creek Monthly Meeting was set up, 
of which he was a member. 

With the concurrence of his Friends at home, he 
traveled considerably abroad in the work of the min- 
istry. He visited many of the meetings of Friends 
in Virginia, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, 
Ohio and Indiana ; and some of them several times. 

He was a man of good natural abilities, though 



ENOCH PEARSON. 61 

very little improved by school education; yet such 
was his experience in the school of Christ, that he was 
an instrument of much usefulness in the Church ; and 
as the evening of his day approached, it was believed 
that he grew deeper in the root of immortal life, and 
more weighty in his religious communications. He 
labored much to arouse the lukewarm and indifferent 
from their apathy, and to urge all to the faithful 
attendance of religious meetings — declaring that 
those who were negligent in that duty could not 
prosper or advance in the truth. 

When the close of life drew nigh, and sickness 
came on, he bore his afflictions with Christian forti- 
tude ; advising Friends to faithfulness, and express- 
ing a desire for their prosperity. In his last illness, 
he expressed a desire to be released from his suffer- 
ings; and w^as heard to exclaim: "0 death! where- is 
thy sting ? grave ! where is thy victory ?" 

He peacefully departed this life on the 7th of the 
Twelfth month, 1839, in the seventy-ninth year of his 
age, and was buried at Concord on the next day, 
lamented at death as he had been respected and 
loved in life. 



62 JOSEPH B. HUNT. 



JOSEPH B. HUNT. 

A Memorial of Spiceland Monthly Meeting of Friends^ 
Henry County^ Indiana^ concerning our deceased 
Friend^ Joseph B. Hunt, lolio died on the 2ith of 
the Ninth months aged thirty-tivo years. 

This, our dear friend, was born on the 3d day of 
Third month, 1807. His parents, John and Ann 
Hunt, were members of our religious society, residents 
of Lower Evesham, Burlington county. New Jersey. 

He was a dutiful and affectionate child, and oft- 
times showed an unusual tenderness and compassion 
for the brute creation. His father dying when he 
was but about seventeen years of age, and he being 
the oldest of the children, much care devolved on 
him for a season, during which his stability of con- 
duct exceeded most of his age. In the year 1824, 
he was placed apprentice in Bordentown, where he 
was much exposed, and met wath many difficulties ; 
but the invisible arm of divine love and mercy was 
near for his preservation, whereby he was strengthened 
to resist many of the tem.ptations incident to youth. 
During his apprenticeship, he manifested great in- 
terest in the temporal concerns of his master, though 
often placed in a deeply trying situation, his master 
having seceded from Friends, as also the Men's Pre- 
parative Meeting, during the time of his apprentice- 



JOSEPH B. HUNT. G3 

ship, SO that he seemed indeed alone — experiencing, 
at times, a difficulty in attending religious meetings, 
which privilege he much desired, and availed himself 
of whenever opportunity was afforded. "^ His business 
confining him in the midst of an abandoned and 
profligate company, who were employed as assistants 
in the profession, he sometimes expressed to his 
friends that his trials seemed almost insupportable, 
observing that they not only made a jest of him as 
an individual, but spoke of the fundamental doctrines 
of Christianity in so contemptuous a manner, that, to 
use his own expressions, " he sometimes feared that 
the immediate wrath of Divine Justice would be dis- 
played upon them." ^Notwithstanding these things, 
he preserved a good name wherever he was known ; 
even some of those who had taken part in ridiculing 
him and his religious principles, expressed regret on 
account of his leaving the village, acknowledging that 
his firm adherence to the principles he professed had 
been instructive to them. At the close of his appren- 
ticeship, he informed his widowed mother that he 
believed it would be for the good of the younger 
branches of the family in particular to migrate to the 
west. Arrangements were, therefore, accordingly 
made, and in the fall of 1828, they left New Jersey, 
having obtained certificates from Chesterfield Monthly 



*He was the *' young man ^* mentioned by Thomas Shillitoe in 
his Journal. See ** Friends' Library/' vol. iii, pp. 410 and 411. 



64 JOSEPH B. HUNT. 

Meeting, which were forwarded to Westfield Monthly 
Meeting, Ohio, within the limits of which they set- 
tled. It being about the time of the separation in 
those parts, it was his lot again to contend with diffi- 
culties on that account; but by keeping a single eye 
to that which had been his support in times past, he 
was enabled to bear all with cheerfulness, often giving 
a word of encouragement to the family, and manifest- 
ing a concern for their spiritual welfare in providing a 
suitable way for them to get to religious meetings. 
A love of retirement and reading the Holy Scriptures 
v/ere strongly inculcated by his example, frequently 
desiring them to recur to the example of their 
deceased parent in that respect. In the year 1833, 
he married, and soon after settled in the limits of this 
meeting. 

The subject of this memorial was here remarkable, 
in his social relations, for uprightness, candor and 
benevolence, and for the clearness and energy of his 
mind. As a member of our religious society, he was 
orderly in his general deportment, and particularly 
guarded in his conversation; was punctual in the 
attendance of meetings, and manifested a becoming 
zeal for the support of our Christian disciphne. He 
evinced a particular concern that the reputation of 
society might be preserved unspotted, and that our 
religious principles and testimonies might be main- 
tained in their original purity, and impressed on the 
minds of the rising generation. In treating with 



JOSEPH B. HUNT. 65 

offenders, he appeared peculiarly gifted; his labors 
being close, and in that love which seeketh to restore. 
In the winter and spring of 1839, he was engaged 
with some other friends in the arduous task of visit- 
ing the families of this meeting ; in which service he 
was much devoted, being frequently led to speak to 
those with whom he was connected in the service of 
the importance of their engagement, and of the neces- 
sity of their avoiding all conversation calculated to 
draw their minds away from that source of divine 
good to which alone they should look, that they might 
be favored to feel His living and divine presence to go 
with them ; and in His pure, gentle and heavenly love 
and wisdom, be favored to labor availingly among the 
members of His church ; in all of which he was an ex- 
cellent example, often speaking in families to the ten- 
dering of those who heard him. He frequently ex- 
pressed much concern that the first day of the week 
might be properly employed, being himself a con- 
sistent example, in religious reading and retirement. 
His interest in the literary and religious improvement 
of the people of color was evident ; frequently remind- 
ing his fellow-members of those duties connected with 
our testimony against slavery, and by his own active 
labors among those objects of compassion wdthin his 
reach. Shortly previous to his last illness, he was 
rather unusually exercised, particularly in his own 
family, where, among other rehgious engagements, he 
was frequently led into vocal supplication. 



66 JOSEPH B. HUNT. 

Oa the 2Tth of Eighth months 1839, he was taken 
ill of congestive fever, which soon appeared serious, 
and at one time he said to his wife, that he did not 
know how it might terminate; but be that as it would, 
death was no terror to him; but he hoped if there was 
anything in his way, it w^ould be made manifest. On 
being informed that his mother had taken the fever, 
he said: ^'Well, I cannot think that Providence in- 
tends this for a judgment, but that it is in mercy, that 
He may bring us to live nearer to him, or to take 
some of us to himself." 

He manifested much concern during his sickness for 
the Christian instruction and education of his children, 
observing at one time that he felt concerned to express 
something of it in his Will, that those into whose hands 
it might fall, might know that he died in full faith in 
the doctrines and discipline of the Society of Friends, 
as well as to secure, as much as possible, the object of 
his desire for his children. That document was, there- 
fore, produced, and the following items inserted, yiz : 
" The guarded religious education of my children 
being a subject of more concern and anxiety with me 
than the estate I may leave them, I feel an earnest 
solicitude that their education may be such as to 
keep them, as much as possible, out of the way of 
evil example ; that they may receive their education 
under the guardian care of the Society of Friends.; 
and that they be early made acquainted with the 
doctrines of the Christian religion as contained in the 



JOSEPH B. HUNT. 67 

Holy Scriptures, and professed and believed in by said 
society; and in order more effectually to secure this 
important and desirable object, I hereby nominate and 
appoint my beloved friend, , as the guar- 
dian of their persons jointly with their mother; and 
if it should ever be necessary to place either or all of 
them as apprentices, I wish them to be careful to 
place them among Friends^ preferring those whose 
care and example will be most likely to conduce to 
their preservation.'^ 

A few days before his departure, feeling his mind 
again drawn toward those objects of his tender regard, 
he called upon a friend who was present to write from 
his lips some advice which he felt concerned to leave 
them; informing that he wished first copied a few 
lines left to him and his brothers and sisters by their 
deceased parent. He then proceeded to deliver, in 
sentences, the following, viz : 

" Dear Children : — As it appears likely that I shall 
not have the opportunity of personally watching over 
you, and feeling a deep interest for your eternal wel- 
fare, I am induced to recommend the following advice 
to your serious attention. First, I adopt and recom- 
mend the foregoing instructions left by your grand- 
father to his children. Next, I may observe, that it 
is a great satisfaction that I am likely to leave you 
where you will receive the benefits of a guarded 
religious education, under the superintendence of the 



68 ' JOSEPH B. HUNT. 

Society of Friends, which may, if you are faithful, 
prove a great blessing to you. But ! remember 
that you are by nature fallen, and that you cannot be 
restored therefrom, except by yielding obedience to 
that gift of divine grace which has been purchased for 
you through the mediation of Christ. Look upon 
this inward gift as your best friend ; for although it 
will lead you in the way of the cross, yet being faith- 
fully attended to, it will restore you into oneness and 
sweet communion with the Author of your existence, 
than which no greater happiness can be realized in 
this life ; especially as this state, if continued in, hath 
the promise of that which is to come. And in order 
that you slight not the gift alluded to, be careful fre- 
quently to devote some time to wait upon it in silence ; 
this will not disqualify you for the cheerful discharge 
of your social and domestic duties. Be obedient to 
the wishes of your dear tribulated mother, and of 
such Friends as are concerned to join with her in 
watching over you for good; studiously avoid the 
company of those who make a jest of rehgion. I 
desire you frequently, with dependent minds, to peruse 
the Holy Scriptures. Conform to the salutary requi- 
sitions of our discipline in regard to plainness of dress 
and address, I may inform you, that I believe I 
should have escaped much trouble and anxiety had 
I more unreservedly yielded my will to the divine 
will, as I have recommended you to do, which makes 
me earnestly press upon you, that you acknowledge 



JOSEPH B. HUNT. 69 

Him in all your ways, so shall He direct your paths. 
la conclusion, above all, be careful not to grieve the 
Holy Spirit. 

" So, in dear love, farewell." 

He also requested the reflections on the alotment 
of Providence in the varied condition of mankind, by 
John Thorp, added as a part of his farewell address to 
his children. 

During the progress of his illness, he evinced great 
patience under suffering, which was no less remarka- 
able than his sympathy with the sufferings of others. 
At one time he contrasted his situation, and the kind 
and watchful attention paid him with that of the sick 
slave, who he doubted not, was often left to struggle 
out his miserable existence with very little done to 
relieve his sufferings. Indeed his expressions of grat- 
itude for the attention that was paid him, were fre- 
quent and affecting. 

To a number of Friends, he spoke at one time of 
the unlawful desire of lawful things, even where riches 
were not aimed at ; yet an undue anxiety would often 
prevail to be accommodated with such things as in our 
own wills we might wish, not enough restricting our 
desires to the real necessaries of life — food to eat and 
raiment to put on. Another time he expressed his 
concern, and very feelingly impressed it on those who 
heard him, that Friends should be more careful to de- 
mean themselves soberly when in public companies, 
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70 JOSEPH B. HUNT. 

believing that increased watchfulness and care in that 
respect were essentially necessary to our growth and 
prosperity as a people, and to our individual advance- 
ment in the truth. He earnestly desired Friends' 
attention to those who, in this newly settled country, 
were unable to read, expressing his belief that a bless- 
ing might attend our looking after such, and devising 
means whereby portions of the Holy Scriptures might 
be read to them. 

At one time, after a friend who had called to see 
him had taken his leave, he called him back, and in 
an affectionate and impressive manner, urged upon 
him the practice of the daily perusal of the Holy 
Scriptures in his family. He added, " I am aware of 
the difficulties that lie in the way of a faithful per- 
formance of this duty, from the nature of thy busi- 
ness. I know that those who serve the pubhc are 
liable to continual encroachments on their leisure; but 
I believe if thou wilt give up to make the trial in 
simple faith, thou wilt find that a way will be opened 
for thee beyond thy expectation. Thy business is a 
necessary and useful one; and of course, nothing in 
the nature of it incompatible with the faithful per- 
formance of religious duty. Thou hast been regular 
in the attendance of rehgious meetings, and thy ex- 
ample in this respect may have a greater influence on 
others than thou art aware of" 

To a young woman who inquired of him how he 
was, he replied, " I am no better. I do not think I 



JOSEPH B. HUNT. 7JL 

shall get well, I am willing to go. I can see nothing 
in my way. I think I shall be accepted, although it 
is not by my own works or anything I have ever done, 
but by and through a merciful Saviour." He then 
expressed his concern for her, that she might improve 
and be prepared for death, etc. 

To some relations who had visited him and were 
about to take their leave, he exclaimed : " Oh, let us 
remember, that we are cared for by the same superin- 
tending Providence, when afflicted as w^hen blessed 
with health and prosperity. Be faithful stewards — do 
your day's work in the day-time — be not conformed 
to this w^orld, etc. — desire above all things to bring 
glory to God : if this is your chiefest concern, such 
times of bodily affliction as I now experience, will be 
but as an evening preceding a bright day ;" with some 
other instructive remarks, desiring, ^- if consistent with 
the divine will, to be freed from the shackles of mor- 
tality." With regard to his children, he said : " I am 
not troubled. My Saviour will be their Saviour, if 
they are his. 0, that they may be his, not only by 
creation, but by adoption, also." 

At another time : " I feel wilHng to die though no 
merit of mine, I have nothing to trust in, nothing to 
build my hopes of salvation upon but the mercies of 
a gracious and bountiful Creator, and the merits of a 
glorious Redeemer, who laid down his life for us, and 
has ascended up on high and sitteth at the right hand 



72 JOSEPH B. HUNT. 

of the (liviDe Majesty, making intercession for poor 
fallen man." 

At another time he said to his wife, that it had 
been a great trial to him to look toward leaving her 
and the children, but, continued he, " I have prayed 
for you, and I believe there will be a way made for you, 
far more easy than thou thinkest for ; but don't be 
too anxious about how thou wilt get along, or spend 
too much time in providing or laying up for thy chil- 
dren. I know it is right to be industrious and pro- 
vide for our families, yet I do not think it takes near 
as much as some think it does. Be careful, as much 
as circumstances will admit, to read daily the Scrip- 
tures in retirement, for it has been a great satisfaction 
to me that we have spent a part of our time in this 
way. It is also a satisfaction that I gave up to attend 
to some society concerns, particularly in treating with 
offenders and visiting families." His wife asking him 
if he saw anything in his way, he said : "0 no ; but 

remember, ever remember, that it is nothing that 

1 have ever done." On one of his sisters coming into 
the room, and he observing her to be affected, he said, 
"Don't, dear sister, mourn, but rather rejoice, there 
is no cause for mourning." 

At a time near his close, a friend inquired how be 
felt; he replied, "I am very weak;" then forcibly 
pressing the hand of his friend, he added : 



PATIENCE SLEEPER. 73 

* *Tis immortality — 'tis that alone, 
Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, 
The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill." 

In reply to a similar question at another time, he 
answered, "I am seeking for holy help, to enable me 
to bear whatever Infinite wisdom may see meet to lay 
upon me." 

About noon of the day of his departure, he asked 
those present why they did not dress his blisters. 
His wife told him they did not think he would stay 
much longer. He then, with a pleasant look and 
much composure, nodded his assent; took leave of 
her, desiring her, when she saw him going not to give 
way to immoderate grief, as he wished to depart 
quietly away. 

Some time after, when in great suffering, he said : 
^^ Lord be pleased to release me if consistent with 
thy divine will, but not my will but thine be done ;" 
and shortly after breathed his last. 



PATIENCE SLEEPER, 

Compiled from a Memorial of Sugar River Monthly 
Meeting^ Indiana. 

Her parents were Jacob and Casandria Borrpugh, 
and she was born in Philadelphia, Second month, 



74 PATIENCE SLEEPER. 

17th, 1767. They removed, with their family, about 
the year 1784, to the State of New York, and settled 
at a considerable distance from any meeting of Friends. 
, She was united in marriage with Samuel Sleeper in 
the year 1787. 

In early life her mind was at times awakened to 
the necessity of a religious life and conduct, and as 
she yielded obedience to the Holy Spirit, she grew in 
grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour 
Jesus Christ. 

She manifested her zeal for the truth, by her per- 
severance in the attendance of religious meetings at 
considerable distance, in the newly settled country, 
and under many outward difficulties. About the year 
1796, she felt herself called upon to declare to others 
the goodness of God to her soul, and to call upon 
others to partake of the mercy of God through Jesus 
Christ. 

She was also concerned for the right education of 
her children, and was frequently engaged in reading 
a portion of the Holy Scriptures in her family, and of 
solemn silence before the Lord. She several times 
performed considerable journeys on horseback to visit 
small companies of Friends, who were scattered over 
the then wilderness country where they resided. 

They removed to Stroudsburgh, Pennsylvania, about 
the year 1810, and in three or four years after her 
gift and calling as a minister of the gospel, was ac- 
knowledged by Richland Monthly Meeting, Penn. 



PATIENCE SLEEPER. 75 

They afterward removed ia 1817, to Ohio ; and in 
in 1836, to Sugar River Monthly Meeting, Indiana, 
Notwithstanding the many outward changes she had 
to pass through, the salvation of her own soul and 
the spiritual welfare of her fellow-mortals, seem to 
have been the primary object of her life, and she was 
frequently engaged, with the concurrence of her friends, 
in visiting in the love of the gospel, friends and others 
in different parts of the United States, which visits 
appear to have been performed to the peace and com- 
fort of her own mind and to the satisfaction of her 
friends. 

And even after she become far advanced in years 
and feeble in body, she yielded to apprehended duty, 
and performed several religious visits, some of which 
were of considerable extent, the retrospect of which 
afforded her much peace. 

Her zeal for the maintainance of our various Chris- 
tian testimonies, did not abate with her declining 
years and strength, and she felt especially concerned 
that Friends might not neglect the attendance of our 
religious meetings, frequently remarking that when she 
was well enough to sit up comfortably, she could go 
to meeting ; and, in this respect, her example was 
very striking, and she frequently persevered through 
much bodily infirmity and other obstacles in her at- 
tendance. She continued to manifest a lively and 
tender regard for the whole human family, and an 
ardent desire for the salvation and happiness of her 



76 PHEBE D. BENEDICT. 

fellow-beings, rarely surpassed by those in the prime 
of life. 

During her last illness she did not incline to much 
conversation, and evidently had her affections placed 
upon things above. She was frequently engaged in 
suppHcation for herself, and for her children and grand- 
children. She peacefully departed this life on the 
21st of Second month, 1843, aged seventy-six years 
and four days — a minister about thirty years. 



PHEBE D. BENEDICT. 

The Testimony of Alum Creek Montlily Meeting of 
Friends^ Ohio^ concerning Phebe D. Benedict, de- 
ceased. 

" Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth : yea, 
saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labor ; and their works 
do follow them." — Eev. xiv, 13. 

That the " works " and example of such as these 
may not be lost to their successors^ the following ac- 
count has been compiled from memorials, preserved at 
the time, of some of the last expressions of our de- 
parted friend. 

She was the daughter of William and Phebe Gid- 
ley, and born at Saratoga, in the State of New York, 
the 20th of the Ninth month, 1809. 



PHEBE D. BENEDICT. 77 

During the early part of her Hfe, being of a viva- 
cious disposition of mind, she evinced no very serious 
impressions until about the age of seventeen, when 
she became more thoughtful, and it was evident that 
a change had taken place in her affections — that she 
had exchanged the follies of a vain world, for the dis- 
cipline and yoke of Christ. 

At the age of twenty years she was united in mar- 
riage with our friend, Daniel Benedict, to whom she 
proved an affectionate companion during the short 
period of their union* 

In the Second month of the year 1832, symptoms 
of a decidedly pulmonary character were developed; 
and from that time she was mostly confined to her 
room. During this interval, and especially near the 
final close, she uttered many weighty and instructive 
remarks • Some of which are as follows : 

About the first of Eighth month, 1832, after various 
medical means had been resorted to without yielding 
her any permanent relief, being asked if she thought 
she should recover, she replied, " No! It has been a 
great trial to me to give up my husband and my little 
son ; but I have been favored to do it. If I am not 
very much deceived there is a place in heaven pre- 
pared for me ;" and added — " I want my little son to 
be brought up in the fear of the Lord, and to go to 
meetings." 

During an interval of several weeks, while she and 
her husband were mostly alone, she expressed on 
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78 PHEBE D. BENEDICT. 

divers occasions many weighty remarks, which have not 
been preserved; chiefly concerning the merits of our 
blessed Redeemer, and the awful consequences attend- 
ing those who cast him off, and thereby reject the 
only appointed means for the salvation of their souls. 
For about three weeks before her decease she was 
subject to very distressing fainting fits. In some of 
them her attendants apprehended that the last conflict 
was near at hand. On the 20th of Twelfth month, 
reviving from one of these paroxyms, she said : " I am 
willing to suffer. It is good for me to suffer. We 
must all be willing to suffer. We are poor sinful 
creatures. Christ Buffered for us. Oh ! how he suf- 
fered when he went into the garden to pray, and the 
drops of sweat were as drops 4}f blood ! He suffered 
for us all, and why can't we be willing to suffer our 
portion ? 0, what a comfort and peace do those find 
who draw nigh to their Saviour ! He will be near 
them and will support them. ! how he has suffered 
for us poor sinful creatures ! Let us draw nigh unto 
Him and he will draw nigh unto us. But ! I fear 
too many have cast him off*. ! call upon Him while 
h^ is to be found. My natural inclination would cause 
me to be still, but I must praise his great and adora- 
ble name. I feel that I am a poor creature, but he is 
mighty, and can do all things. I want my dear 
brothers to walk in the fear of the Lord. I crave it 
for them. Our Saviour is a great and mighty tower 
to flee to. 0, how can any one cast him off*?'' 



PHEBE D. BENEDICT. 79 

On another occasion she said, " I long to be gone, 
but I crave patience to wait the Lord's time." 

Again she broke forth with the following ejacula- 
tions : " 0, how can my soul praise thy great and 
mighty name enough, thou Saviour, to save ? 0, holy 
Father, if it be thy blessed will, I pray thee ease this 
great burden ; but if it be thy blessed will lay more 
on me, if thou wilt only be pleased to give me strength 
iand patience to bear it." 

At another time she said, " Why am I continued 
here so long ?" After a little pause, added, " It is 
not on my own account. It is on some other. I am 
ready to go. My peace is made, and w^hat a favor 
it is !" 

She frequently exhorted her brothers and sisters in 
an earnest manner, to be more circumspect ; to read 
good books, and attend religious meetings, " I have 
taken great satisfaction therein," said she, " and I be- 
lieve if we are faithful in the discharge of these duties, 
we shall be strengthened by them. I have many 
times retired into the woods, and there poured out my 
prayers to the Most High ; and now I believe there is 
a place prepared for me in heaven. And, dear sisters, 
you who have the care of children, I desire that you 
may bring them up in the fear of the Lord, for I am 
sure there can be no greater joy than to see them 
walking in the truth. And, dear brothers, I desire 
that you may be faithful in the discharge of your du- 
ties, and not to put ofif your day's work until you are 



80 PHEBE D. BENEDICT. 

brought to a bed of sickness, and a dying hour! 
Though I am in great pain, yet the Lord hath laid it 
upon me, and he will enable me to bear all." 

Afterward, when in extreme pain, she supplicated 
thus : " 0, dearest Father, be pleased to lay no more 
upon me than thou wilt enable me to bear ! 0, be 
pleased to take me to thyself ? Thy will, nevertheless, 
not mine be done !" 

On reviving from one of the fainting fits, to which 
she was subject, she said: ^^I am again permitted 
to breathe a few times more, for what cause I know 
not, that I leave to the great Judge. 0, it is good to 
suffer here below." 

One of her sisters coming in after she had revived 
from a similar fit, she said to her in a low voice, " I 
have been almost gone since thou wast here. I 
thought I should have breathed but a few times more, 
but for some cause or other, I was not permitted to 
enter into the arms of my Saviour." 

The 23d of Twelfth month, she was much engaged 
in thanksgiving, dwelling mostly on the love and con- 
descension of her blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus 
Christ, manifested to her in the time of her sickness, 
saying, " If it were possible I w^ould publish to all the 
world what He has done for my soul." 

For several days before her death, being very weak 
and for the most part unable to speak audibly, yet she 
would at times break forth in a strong and melodious 
voice, to the surprise of those attending her ; the en- 



PHEBE D, BENEDICT. 81 

ergies of her mind seeming to triumph over the weak- 
ness of her body- On one of these occasions she ex- 
horted those around her to seek the Lord while he 
might be found. " 0/' said she, " how necessary it is 
that we should labor for that peace which the world 
cannot give. I have found it needful for me to strive 
for it, both since I have been brought to this bed of 
sickness, and before ; and I have been favored to en- 
joy it in so great a measure, that I think I cannot be 
deceived. Weep not for me but weep for yourselves. 
It is good for us sometimes to mourn." Speaking at 
the same time largely on the suflerings of her cruci- 
fied Lord, and his goodness to her, saying, " Behold 
how he strengthens my voice, and enables me to praise 
his great name !" 

Subsequently to this she frequently spoke of her 
departure, and seemed anxious for the period to ar- 
rive ; several times saying that her greatest concern 
was for fear she should not be patient enough to wait 
for the time to come. 

A little previous to the final close, she said that 
she wished all to be still and quiet, and not call in any 
one when the time of her departure came, saying, 
" Although it may not be so agreeable to you, yet I 
want all to be still ; for it is a great thing to die, but 
a greater not to be prepared." 

Soon after this symptoms of dissolution appeared, 
and being sensible that her end was near, she re- 
quested a sister called, who had just retired, to whom 



82 PHEBE D. BENEDICT. 

she expressed her apprehension of a speedy change, 
and desired her friends to be composed when the aw- 
ful crisis should arrive ; saying, " I am sure you must 
be willing to give me up," which were nearly the last 
words she uttered. 

As the final conflict approached, a peaceful serenity 
prevailed over her composed features, which seemed 
an earnest of the blessedness of the departing spirit. 

Thus died one, who, during a painful and protracted 
illness, evinced an * entire confidence in Almighty 
power, and a patient acquiescence in the various dis- 
pensations meted out to her ; and at last, at the wind- 
ing up of time, through faith in God, and our Lord 
and Saviour Jesus Christ, has obtained, we doubt not, 
an "inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that 
fadeth not away." 

She died the 31st of Twelfth month, 1832, and 
was interred the day following in Friends' burying- 
ground, at Alum Creek, Ohio, aged twenty-three 
years, three months, and eleven days. 



JAMES HADLEr. 83 

JAMES HADLEY. 

(of white lick, INDIANA.) 

Memorial of White Lick Monthly Meeting^ concerning 
James Hadley, deceased. 

He was born on the 26th day of the Fifth month, 
1794, in Chatham county. North Carolina, and lived 
with his parents, Thomas and Mary Hadley, until his 
marriage with Mary, daughter of Jeremiah and Ruth 
Hadley, which occurred on the 23d day of the Etev- 
enth month, 1815. They resided within the limits 
of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, North Carolina, for 
a few years after marriage, and then removed and 
settled on the White Lick, in the State of Indiana, 
then a wilderness country, and nearly sixty miles from 
any meeting of Friends. Hitherto this our dear friend 
had not submitted to the cross of Christ ; and during 
the formation of new settlements, inviting prospects 
of worldly gain were presented, and he was solicited 
to fill offices of honor and profit in civil government, 
which subjected him to many temptations to become 
worldly-minded and more forgetful of God. 

But through adorable mercy he was preserved from 
entirely losing his love for the truth and for Friends ; 
and becoming more concerned, he took active part in 
promoting the settling of Friends, and the establishing 



84 JAMES HADLEY. 

of meetings near him. In a short time, the settle- 
ment so increased, that a meeting for Worship, Pre- 
parative, and Monthly Meeting were established, of 
which he was a member during the rest of his life. 
These meetings were set up in 1823 ; and his concern 
for the advancement of truth having increased, he be- 
came a diligent attender of them, and frequently en- 
couraged others in the same religious duty. 

He was often made instrumental in the divine hand 
in settling difficulties among Friends and others ; and 
continuing to submit, more and more, to the effectual 
workings of the Spirit of divine grace upon his heart, 
he became prepared for usefulness in the church, and 
received a gift in the ministry, which he occupied to 
the satisfaction of Friends, and was acknowledged in 
the station of a minister in 1826. 

About this time the promulgation of the anti-Chris- 
tian doctrines of Elias Hicks, among Friends, caused 
deep concern in many rightly exercised minds ; and 
this our beloved friend was favored, by the openings 
of best wisdom, clearly to see the unsoundness and 
danger thereof, and to stand as a faithful watchman, 
sounding the alarm, and exhorting others to vigilance 
against them. 

He was frequently engaged in encouraging Friends 
in the practice of retiring daily, with their families, 
into stillness, and reading a portion of the Holy Scrip- 
tures, with minds turned to their heavenly Author, 
the blessed source of all good, seeking for a measure 



JAMES HADLEY. 85 

of living faith rightly to open them, and in which in- 
struction and edification might be experienced. 

He manifested much concern for the present and 
eternal well-being of the whole human family ; and his 
mind was turned to the rising generation in particular, 
with deep interest, and he was frequently enabled to 
entreat them, in a tender and affectionate manner, to 
seek to know Christ for themselves, through his reno- 
vating influence upon their souls, to be their only Sa- 
viour and deliverer, and the only door to eternal rest 
and peace. 

When other engagements admitted of it, he was 
frequently engaged in First-day schools, for Scripture 
instruction, as a teacher, in which he was favored to 
make occasional remarks on what had been read, tend- 
ing to instruct the youth under his charge, and to im- 
press their minds with the value of the sacred writings, 
and the importance of becoming well acquainted with 
them. 

He was frequently engaged in religious visits, and 
traveled much from home in the service of the gospel, 
to the satisfaction of Friends where he went, to which 
the copies of minutes furnished him by meetings where 
he attended, bore sufficient testimony. 

In the year 1827, he visited most of the meetings 
belonging to Miami, Fairfield and Center Quarterly 
Meetings, and from some short notes which he kept 
during this journey, we find that his mind was deeply 
tried during his progress therein. In one case he 



86 JAMES HAD1.EY. 

says : " This afternoon I had some refreshing medita- 
tion on the road, which afforded strength to my exer- 
cised mind. I saw that it was necessary to guard 
against the enemy in all his encroachments, who had 
of late been trying to overwhelm me with discourage- 
ments.'' 

In the forepart of the year 1828, a committee, of 
which he was one, was appointed by our Quarterly 
Meeting, to visit the Monthly Meetings belonging 
thereto, on account of the separation of the followers 
of Elias Hicks from our religious Society. The sor- 
rowful effects of this rending spirit bore weightily 
upon his mind. He gives expression to some of his 
exercises in writing, addressed to his friends who were 
in like manner affected with himself, on account of 
the jars and commotions which were spreading far and 
wide in that day to lay waste the goodly heritage, 
some extracts from which here follow : 

" Dear friends ^^^^^^ arm yourselves with the in- 
vincible armor of love, whereby you may have confi- 
dence to call on the Captain of our soul's salvation, 
that he may be pleased to equip and qualify you as 
valiant soldiers in his holy warfare. Let none con- 
sider themselves of so little note in the world that 
they can be of no use in maintaining and in defending 
the glorious cause of truth and righteousness. Re- 
member that the first instruments in the divine hand 
to promulgate the Christian religion were called into 
his service from the ordinary ranks of life ; yet by 



JAMES HADLEY. 87 

leaving all and following the immaculate Lamb, they 
became as stars of the first magnitude. This remains 
to be an essential duty of all His followers at the pre- 
sent day ; they must, for his sake, give up all other 
beloved objects to which their hearts have been at- 
tached, as the fishermen did their nets, and follow 
him in the regeneration. When the mind becomes so 
far divested of self, as to resign all to the disposal of 
the Divine Head, there will be a leaving of the 
things that are behind, and a pressing forward 
through difficulties and sore trials toward the mark, 
for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ 
Jesus. 

" 0, dear friends, time loudly calls for diligence in 
every age and condition, that we may become more 
and more engaged in the good cause, even the cause 
of truth and righteousness ; and if we are devoted to 
serve the Lord with an upright heart and a willing 
mind, we need not fear the malice of men, nor the 
wiles of Satan, for the Lord will preserve us. 

" Lord Omnipotent ! make bare thy holy arm, 
and interpose for the delivery of thy heritage. Cause 
thy invincible power to come over the rending spirits, 
that all discord and strife may be done away, and the 
holy oil flow from vessel to vessel, and that there be 
a gathering more and more unto Shiloh : cause thy 
watchmen to be valiant for the truth ; be thou their 
guide, and direct their steps ; cause that their trum- 
pet may give a certain sound, and enable them to hold 



88 JAMES HADLEY. 

on their way through every difficulty and trial toward 
the port of eternal rest. Amen." 

In the year 1830, he performed a religious visit in 
North Carolina. Among many other subjects which 
occupied and exercised his mind, the failure of many 
who professed with Friends to live up to their testi- 
mony in that plainness of speech, behavior, and appa- 
rel, which becomes our rehgious profession, called forth 
the exercise of his gift for a reformation in these re- 
spects. His heart also sympathized deeply with faith- 
ful Friends on account of their testimony against 
slavery, in the midst of a slaveholding community, 
with desires for their encouragement in rightly mani- 
festing a Christian example to those around them, and 
for the preservation of themselves and their children 
from the contamination of the evils looked upon with 
allowance by others. 

He frequently held meetings, during his travels in 
the service of the gospel, among those not in religious 
profession with us, in which he evinced a lively con- 
cern that none might be professors in form merely, but 
that all should witness the one living saving baptism, 
that of the Holy Spirit, a faithful abiding under the 
influence of which would enable them to bring forth 
fruits meet for repentance. 

He was often fervently engaged to admonish parents 
and heads of families to a more faithful discharge of 
duty toward their beloved offspring, encouraging them 
to labor for ability to bring them up in the nurture and 



JAMES HADLEY. 89 

admonition of the Lord, so that when parents are called 
upon to give an account of their stewardship, it might 
appear that they had been good examples in all things. 
The youth were also exhorted to pay due regard to the 
counsel and example of godly parents, by which they 
might be greatly instructed in the way of the Lord, 
and become suitably prepared to fill their ranks in 
righteousness. 

Our dear friend was much impressed with the neces- 
sity of faithfully maintaining the various Christian tes- 
timonies, that we, as a people, are called upon to bear 
to the world. He was frequently engaged affection- 
ately to advise against reading pernicious books, and 
against suflfering the mind to be too much engrossed 
with the current news of the day; believing that 
where such reading was indulged in by any, they would 
be drawn off from the love of the truth, and weakened 
in their regard for the sacred writings, which are able 
to make wise unto salvation, through faith in Christ 
Jesus. 

He was often heard, both in public and private, to 
bear testimony against the commotion and high excite- 
ment so common in contentions and struggles about 
political affairs, which have so much prevailed ; run- 
ning, as they have done in many cases, into much ex- 
travagance and folly, and to warn Friends against par- 
ticipating in them. 

He bore a firm and unwavering testimony against 
slavery; and was frequently heard in vocal supplica- 



90 JAMES HADLEY. 

tion to intercede for those in bondage, and also for 
their oppressors, that the day might be hastened when 
the heavy burdens should be undone and the oppressed 
go free. While his desire was ardent for the imme- 
diate and unconditional emancipation of the slaves, 
he did not think it best for Friends to join in with 
the popular associations of the day in endeavoring to 
promote that cause; but advised that Friends remain 
together and act on their own Christian ground; 
seeking for divine counsel, and waiting for the mani- 
festations of duty in the life, to order and direct 
their movements in this as well as other important 
concerns. 

A committee was appointed in the Yearly Meeting 
of 1842, to visit Quarterly, Monthly and Preparative 
Meetings, on account of a spirit of insubordination 
then existing in some of the meetings of Friends 
within the limits of the Yearly Meeting. Being one 
of this committee, he was engaged much of the time 
during the preceding winter, spring and summer, in 
attending meetings, and laboring for the preservation 
of Friends, on that foundation which standeth sure 
through all the storms and tempests incident to our 
present state ; admonishing them, that while engaged 
in the support of one of our testimonies, as that 
against slavery, they should not neglect or disregard 
others which w^e are called upon to bear. During the 
exercises of this visit, his trials and sorrow were in- 
creased by the contention and opposition of some who 



JAMES HADLET. 91 

had once been united to him in Christian fellowship, 
but \itio had now joined in another separation; but 
having his mind staid on the Lord, and depending on 
his divine protection and assistance, he was enabled 
to endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, 
and to labor (with much effect on many) in the 
restoring love of his gospel. 

In a pubhc testimony which he bore a short time 
before his decease, he observed that his feelings were 
of a very awful kind, believing that death was near 
to some of our houses ; at the same time bringing to 
view the great need for all to be prepared, not know- 
ing the hour when that messenger may call on any 
of us. 

At another time, in his own Preparative Meeting, 
in the last public testimony that he bore, he remarked, 
that it appeared to him, from the exercise of his mind, 
that there were those in high standing in society, who 
had great need to enter into close examination, to see 
whether they had fully discharged their duty in bring- 
ing up their children in a way that would preserve 
them in our Christian order; and that parents were 
awfully responsible if they had not. Nearly two 
weeks afterward, in the time of his last illness, he 
informed a friend that this exercise remained with 
him. 

On Seventh-day, the 9th of Twelfth month, 1843, 
he w^as taken with a chill and fever ; but appearing 
to be better next morning, he attended meeting. He 



92 JAMES HADLEF. 

was more unwell ngain that evening, and on Second- 
day, symptoms of an inflammatory character began 
to appear, which did not afterward give way to medi- 
cine. He observed to a friend who called in to see him, 
that he might be mistaken, but it was his impression 
that this would be his last sickness, which was to him 
a very solemn consideration; but he continued, "there 
appears to be nothing in my way; yet it would be 
agreeable to me, if it were the Lord's will, to stay 
some longer with my beloved friends, if I could be an 
instrument of encouraging them to faithfulness, for 
trials await you." 

Being very sick, he did not express more at that 
time; yet his countenance appeared serene and 
pleasant, which continued to be the case during 
his illness. He did not incline to talk much at any 
time after he was taken unwell, though at intervals 
he expressed a few words to the satisfaction of those 
who attended on him. He bore with patience his 
•affliction of body, which was very great. 

On the 18th, the symptoms of his disorder became 
more unfavorable, and he observed to the friend who 
attended him, that he could not continue long. He 
requested that his wfll should be brought and read to 
him; which being done, and some alterations made 
in it on account of some late changes in his affairs, 
he expressed satisfaction therewith, and made some 
impressive remarks on the necessity of Friends at- 
tending timely to such duties. 



JAMES HADLEY. 93 

On the 23d, a friend came in, being a minister, with 
whom he had long been nearly united in religious fel- 
lowship, and notwithstanding he was somewhat flighty 
in his mind, he seemed glad to see him. After some 
conversation the friend took his seat near, and in a 
short time he appeared to be restored to his right 
mind, and requested that all should be gathered into 
stillness. He was evidently favored to be sensible 
that his beloved friend was under spiritual exercise, 
and he spoke, encouraging him to attend to his feeU 
ings, which he did in the way of supplication. Our 
afflicted friend remained very still, and his spirit 
undoubtedly united with w^hat was said vocally — he 
joining with audible voice in the utterance of the last 
words. 

On the evening before his decease, he inquired how 
his wife was, she being in poor health; and said it 
was admirable how she bore up under her afflictions. 
This was the last time he spoke of her ; and although 
he appeared to know but little that passed on that 
day and the following night, he frequently repeated 
Scripture passages with accuracy; and a short time 
before he expired he said : " Why art thou cast down, 
my soul ? and why art thou disquieted within me ? 
Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him who is 
the health of my countenance and my God." It was 
evident, from the state of mind in which he continued, 
that he was prepared for the solemn change, which 
took place on the 25th of the Twelfth month, 1843, 
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94 JAMES HADLEY. 

His loss will be keenly felt by his family, and cause a 
blank in his meeting and neighborhood which may 
not soon be filled ; yet we have the consoling hope 
that our loss is his eternal gain. " Blessed are the 
dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, 
saith the spirit, for they rest from their labors, and 
their works do follow them." 



JAMES HADLEY. 

(of NEWBERRY, OHIO.) 

Compiled from the Memorial of Newberry Monthly 
3Ieeting, Ohio. 

He was born in North CaroHna, on the 31st day of 
the First month, 1774. His parents were Jeremiah 
and Mary Hadley, members of the Society of Friends. 
His father dying when he was young, the care of his 
early training devolved principally upon his mother. 
He was early impressed with the importance of a 
religious life, and of his accountabihty to God for his 
thoughts, words and actions. By the restraining in- 
fluence of divine grace upon his mind, and the tender 
care of his mother, he was preserved from entering 
into many of the evil things with which youth are 
tempted; and he afterward expressed his gratitude 



JAiMES HADLEY. 95 

for that preservation. As years increased, he in- 
creased in Christian experience and love of the truth. 

In 1795, he was married to Ann Underwood; and 
in 1806, they removed to the State of Ohio with 
their family. They first settled in Highland, among 
the early emigrants to that part; but afterward re- 
moved to Clinton county, and settled at Newberry, 
for the greater convenience of educating their children 
according to their desire. 

He maintained a good character for uprightness, 
candor and benevolence, and for justice in dealing in 
his intercourse with others. Having experienced, in 
a good degree, as is believed, an overcoming of the 
world by the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, he 
was very serviceable to the church, and freely devoted 
much time and his talents to the performance of vari- 
ous duties therein. He set a good example of dili- 
gence in the attendance of religious meetings, and of 
solid deportment therein. 

Being a firm believer in the divine authority of the 
Holy Scriptures, he encouraged the frequent reading 
of them by word and example. He occupied accept- 
ably, for many years, the station of elder, overseer 
and member of the Meeting for Sufferings, in which 
stations respectively he manifested a concern to per- 
form the duties thereof faithfully. The fundamental 
doctrines of the gospel were precious to him, and he 
adhered to them firmly amidst the difficulties which 
were permitted to assail the society in his day. 



96 ELIAS FISHER. 

In the year 1845, being bereaved of his beloved 
wife by death, he undertook to make a social visit 
to his relations and friends in Indiana and Illinois. 
At parting with his children and friends at home, 
it is said that he appeared to be much redeemed 
from the world, and he appeared as if taking a 
final leave, which it proved to be. He was seized 
with a severe illness on his return, which he bore 
with becoming fortitude, and manifested a very tran- 
quil and affectionate frame of mind during his con- 
finement. 

He quietly departed this life, near Dublin, Indiana, 
on the 19th of Eighth month, 1845, leaving an 
encouraging evidence on the minds of his friends 
that he has entered into rest. He was interred 
on the 21st at Bethel, on which occasion, many being 
in attendance, great solemnity prevailed. 



ELIAS FISHER. 

Compiled from the Memorial of Springfield Monthly 
Meeting^ Ohio. 

Elias Fisher was born in Bucks county, Pennsyl- 
vania, on the 10th of the Fifth month, 1768. His 
parents were Joseph and Ann Fisher, members of the 



ELIAS FISHER. 97 

Society of Friends. He notes the tender care of his 
mother, who often collected her children around her 
and instructed them in the way they should go, and 
informed them of the judgments and mercies of Him 
who made all things. He remarks: "I remember 
that, when very young, her counsel and advice often 
caused my heart to quicken and my breast to swell 
with emotion, making impressions on my mind which 
have not yet been effaced." 

Being of a wild disposition in his youth, his miscon- 
duct was the occasion of remorse; and the Holy 
Spirit so visited him with conviction, that he was 
brought to supplications and tears, with strong desires 
that he might be enabled to overcome the evil of his 
heart. But alas ! poor frail youth ; he frequently gave 
way to vanity, although his blessed Saviour continued 
to invite him to come away from all vain things. He 
states that the divine presence was often near, making 
his heart tender, and that, at such times, he would 
enter into covenant, that if God would pass by his 
past oflfenses, he would endeavor to do better in 
future. 

When he was about fifteen years of age, his father 
removed to Virginia, and settled near Winchester. 
Here he was again tried with temptations to vanity, 
and occasionally gave way to too much lightness with 
his associates, which was cause of sorrow afterward. 
He remembered his covenant, with desires to be what 
the Lord would have him to be. Then again, after 



98 ELIAS FISHER. 

this, he says : " I know that my heart is not clear in 
the sight of my Sa\iour, who, through mercy at 
times, called me to come away from vanity ; and I 
was frequently favored to see the beauty of holiness, 
and how lovely it is for young people to serve the 
Lord in their youth, remembering that it was required 
(under the law) to offer up to God the fird fruits in 
sacrifice." 

He afterward notes, that the preservation from fall- 
ing into great evils, on account of the temptations he 
met with from profane and libertine associates in his 
outward occupation, was very humbling to his mind, 
ascribing it to the arm of divine goodness and 
strength, which was around him for that purpose. 

He removed to Lynchburgh in 1792, about which 
time he notes being brought into deep trial, and of 
receiving some consolation and strength of faith, 
which gave him much relief and comfort; and he 
was made willing to renew his covenant and promises 
with the Lord, that if he would go with him and bless 
him, he would endeavor to serve him with a perfect 
heart and a willing mind. 

He was joined in marriage with Hannah Curl in 
1793. For many years his exercises and trials were 
many. He traveled as a companion to Christopher 
Anthony on a religious visit to Philadelphia, and 
afterward, with Stephen Grellet, in Virginia, Ken- 
tucky and Ohio ; then again, with Christopher An- 
thony, to Ohio. He removed to Cincinnati in 1813, 



ELI AS FISHER. 99 

and was soon after that recommended as a minister. 
In the year 1821, he removed and settled within the 
limits of Springfield Monthly Meeting, Ohio. After 
this, from 1823 to 1844, he traveled considerably in 
the work of the ministry, with the unity of his friends. 
He visited the Yearly Meetings in North Carolina and 
Ohio, and most of the subordinate meetings thereunto 
belonging, and also performed various other visits in 
Ohio and Indiana. 

He was a man of good example in conduct and 
conversation; upright in his dealing; and punctual 
in relation to his engagements; and manifested a 
religious concern for the support of the good order 
and discipline of the society. 

When attacked with an illness in the fall of 1845, 
which induced him to believe that his life was drawing 
to a close, he bore his affliction with Christian fortitude 
and patience. His love for the brotherhood, and 
attachment to the cause of truth, seemed unabated. 
He departed this life on the 2 2d of the Twelfth month, 
1845, being upward of seventy-seven years of age, 
and was buried on the 24th at Springfield. 



100 JAMES WHITE, 



JAMES WHITE, 

Memorial of 3Iont1ily 3feeting of Friends^ in Wash- 
ington County^ Indimiaj concerning our beloved 
friendy Jaimes White, deceased. 

He was bom in Perquimans county. North Carolina, 
the 31st day of the First month, 1776. His parents, 
Caleb and Rebecca White, were useful members in 
the Society of Friends, and much concerned for the 
right training of their children. 

In his very early years, he was subjected to serious 
religious impressions, which were sometimes produced 
by the ministry of Friends, and at other times by the 
immediate influence of divine love. 

When about twenty years of age, he met with a 
severe trial, by the sudden and unexpected death of 
his father. This afflicting event caused him to have 
the care of providing for the family ; and being more 
exposed to various kinds of company, he was inclined 
to form new associates, and indulge in some of the 
vanities incident to youth. 

During this time, it appears that in condescending 
goodness and mercy, that Power which had tendered 
his youthful heart, still followed him as a reprover for 
sin in those follies in which the unregenerate mind is 
prone to indulge j and he was made sensible that 



JAMES WHITE. 101 

tbose times of jesting and merriment were vanity, and 
there was no peace in them. 

About this time he felt a deep concern to seek the 
divine counsel in the solemn engagement of marriage, 
which he entered into with Sarah Cosand, daughter of 
Aaron and Hannah Cosand ; she was religiously in- 
clined from her childhood, and in her he found a com- 
panion prepared to unite with him in a self-denying 
course of Christian dedication. After entering into 
this important engagement, he labored hard for several 
years in procuring a comfortable support, being desirous 
of entertaining his friends, and having something to 
spare for society purposes; but was often afflicted 
with bodily infirmity, until there was little hope of his 
recovery while remaining in that country. 

Having relations in Randolph county, a more healthy 
part of the State, he concluded to remove there in the 
fall of 1805, and settled within the limits of Back 
Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends, where he re- 
covered his health, and was useful in society, and for 
a time appeared to be progressing to satisfaction; but 
it appears that further refinement was necessary to 
prepare him for the responsible station which his Divine 
Master designed him to fill. 

He was brought into such distress and anguish of 
soul as words cannot describe ; the billows of dismay 
and despair seemed to overwhelm him. 

After this season of sore conflict, which continued 

several months, a ray of comfort broke through the 
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102 JAMES WHITE. 

thick darkness with which his path had been sur- 
rounded^ and he was favored to witness that there was 
yet balm in Gilead and a physician there ; and after 
many conflicts and deep baptisms of spirit, he gave 
up to the divine requirings, and expressed a few words 
as a minister in the religious meetings of Friends, 
which afforded him much peace, under a grateful sense 
of which he wrote the following : 

" And now what shall I render to the Lord for all 
bis tender mercies to one of the most unworthy of his 
creatures ; even to Him, the only wise and Omnipotent 
God, be honor, glory, thanksgiving and renown, from 
henceforth and forever." 

His wife being a minister, they visited the meet- 
ings of Friends in the eastern parts of tlie State, and 
after their return, he believed it would be right to 
inake the necessary arrangements for emigrating to 
the west, a prospect of which had impressed his mind 
for several years ; though a great trial to leave his 
numerous friends. From a sense of religious duty, 
he set out with his family for Indiana, and settled 
within the limits of Blue River Monthly Meeting, in 
the Tenth month, 1815. 

In breaking up, moving and settling in the woods, 
he became more unguarded and unwatchful, and not 
sufficiently submitting to the restraining power of 
truth, he experienced very close trials. He was at 
times favored with a renewed sense of his situation 
t\rhile following the insinuations of the enemy. It 



JAMES WHITE. 105 

appears, however, that these convictions of divine 
grace were not sufficiently yielded to ; but the visita- 
tions of the Heavenly Father's love were still merci- 
fully extended toward him, until at length he was 
made willing to surrender himself into the Lord's 
hands. In these exercises, he had much to contend 
with, from the assaults of an unwearied adversary . 
yet preservation was graciously afforded ; and being 
made willing to endure many conflicts, deep provings 
and humiliations, he was prepared for usefulness in 
the cause of his Divine Master. 

As he grew in grace, and became increasingly sub- 
jected to the government of the Holy Spirit, his 
appearances in the ministry were more frequent, and 
to the comfort and edification of his friends, who cer- 
tified their unity with him therein in the year 181 9, 
He was a dihgent attender of our meetings for worship 
and discipHne, and his solid reverent deportment 
therein was very instructive ; waiting upon God in a 
watchful and teachable spirit, that he might be in- 
structed in the knowledge of His will, and be pre- 
served under the leading of the Heavenly Shepherd. 

He was sound in doctrine, and his ministry was 
dehvered in simplicity and in demonstration of the 
spirit and of power. 

In the year 1820, with the unity of his friends, he 
visited Friends and others in the western parts of this 
State and part of Illinois ; also New Albany and 
Louisville, Ky.; and, in the Tenth month of the same 



104 JAMES WHITE. 

year^ Whitewater Quarterly Meeting, and all the meet- 
ings thereto belonging. 

And feeling an ardent desire for the everlasting 
welfare of his fellow-creatures, he visited in gospel 
love, in the year 1822, the meetings of Friends in 
Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. In refer- 
ence to this service, he says : '^ In looking over this 
visit, I have had awfully to admire the great forbear- 
ance and goodness of the Lord my God, in preserving 
me in a state of favor as I was but a child, and per- 
mitting me to return home in peace." 

In the year 1825, he was liberated for further ser- 
vice, and attended the meetings of Friends in Ohio 
and part of Pennsylvania. In this visit, he passed 
through many trying and proving dispensations in 
being with those, in some places, who had imbibed the 
principles of unbelief in regard to the fundamental 
doctrines of the Christian religion. 

He believed it his duty to bear a faithful testimony 
against those principles which were producing insub- 
ordination in many places, and to warn his friends of 
the danger of being ensnared by them. The sorrowful 
effects of this rending spirit was at length manifested 
within our borders, and produced a separation in our 
Monthly Meetings, which was to him a source of much 
deep concern and exercise of mind, and he was instru- 
mental in the divine hand in encouraging Friends to 
faithfulness in maintaining our various Christian doc- 
trines and testimonies. 



JAMES WHITE. 105 

In the Eleventh months 1831, he visited the meet- 
ings of Friends in the eastern part of this State and 
the western parts of Ohio. In attending to this 
service, he experienced many deep baptisms and sore 
trials, but was favored to return home with the reward 
of peace. 

In the Tenth month, 1834, he met with a severe 
trial by the death of his son, an only child, on whom 
he had depended for assistance in his declining 
years ; but he was favored to bear this great loss with 
resignation and Christian fortitude. 

In the Sixth month, 1839, he visited New Albany, 
Louisville, Jeffersonville and Cincinnati; and in 
1840, he held meetings in Kentucky, at Louisville, 
Frankfort and Lexington; in Ohio, at Cincinnati; 
and in this State, at Lawrenceburg, Aurora, Madison 
and Jeffersonville ; also in the penitentiaries of Ken- 
tucky and Indiana. 

After his return from the above mentioned visits, 
which were much to the relief and satisfaction of his 
mind, his declining health prevented him from travel- 
ing, except visiting neighboring meetings, and ap- 
pointing some among those not of our society; and he 
now endeavored to close all his outward concerns, so 
as to be ready for the awful change which he saw 
sensibly was near at hand. 

He continued to attend our religious meetings as 
long as ability was afforded; his communications 
therein were weighty and impressive — delivered in 



106 JAMES WHITE. 

the life and power of the gospel. He often appeared 
like one who felt as if standing on the brink of eter- 
nity while pleading with his friends, and endeavoring 
to persuade them by what he had known of the ter- 
rors of the Lord, for disobedience, and by those mer- 
cies of which he had so largely partaken, to flee from 
the wrath to come. On these occasions, Christian 
love and humiUty were the clothing of his spirit, 
earnestly desiring the salvation of all, and especially 
exhorting the youth, that by an early submission to 
the visitations of the love of God, they might es- 
cape those trials and conflicts which many pass through 
in having long resisted the offers of divine grace; 
greatly desiring that they might grow in grace and in 
the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 
living in the fear of their Creator, obeying his com- 
mandments, walking humbly before him, and not fol- 
lowing the customs and fashions of a vain delusive 
world. Wherever his lot was cast, the sick and af- 
flicted shared his sympathy, and he often addressed 
the language of encouragement to the mourners in 
Zion ; he was concerned to warn the careless, and such 
as refused to listen to the reproofs of instruction, or 
who were resting in a profession of the truth, without 
submitting to its regenerating power. He frequently 
expressed his value for a true Gospel Ministry!, and 
for Spiritual worship, as sometimes experienced in 
silent meetings. His mind dwelt much on the awful- 
ness of eternity, and of attending our meetings for 



JAMES WHITE. 107 

divine worship, with our spirits unprepared for such a 
solemn service ; professing to draw nigh unto God, 
while our hearts were far from him. 

At the last meeting he attended, which was our 
Monthly Meeting, in the Ninth month, 1845, he made 
some very impressive remarks; particularly to the 
youth, admonishing them to live consistent with the 
high profession we are making to the world; that 
should this be the last time they ever heard him speak 
on these subjects, he much desired they might remem- 
ber these things ; and in conclusion, he exhorted them 
to build upon that foundation, against which the gates 
of hell shall not prevail — even Christ Jesus, the rock 
of ages. 

A relative who expected to attend our Yearly Meet- 
ing, called to see him, he being much afflicted with in- 
ward weakness, and at times great difficulty of breath- 
ing : he desired to be remembered to all his dear friends 
who inquired after him, never expecting to see them 
again in this world, said he was waiting for his change, 
and beheved he should not be cast off from the pre- 
sence of the Lord. Being asked if he had his out- 
ward affairs arranged to satisfaction, he replied, " he 
had been favored to settle them to the best of his 
knowledge, and was thankful that he could leave 
something for the support of his wife ;" adding, "My 
prayers have been granted : that in addition to adjust- 
ing my worldly concerns, I have had time to commit 



108 JAMES WHITE. 

to paper, before I was confined, some exercises from 
which I could not otherwise release my mind." 

While a number of his friends and relations at- 
tended our Yearly Meeting, he w-a^ more comfortable 
under his bodily afflictions. When they returned and 
visited him, he manifested much concern for the pros- 
perity of our religious Society, by his inquiries rela- 
tive to the trials and difficulties occasioned by the late 
separation in our Yearly Meeting, and that of New 
England. He said that this spirit of insubordination 
is the same that it ever was, and that it proceeds from 
the enemy of all good; and he greatly desired that 
Friends may not indulge in reading or circulating 
those publications which have a tendency to promote 
disunity and discord among our members, and destroy 
the peace and harmony of society. On being informed 
how the Meeting proceeded in relation to those sub- 
jects, and that unity and harmony prevailed through- 
out its deliberations, he expressed his thankfulness 
that he had been permitted to live to hear that we 
had such a favored Meeting, which he believed would 
be the case from the impressions of his mind while we 
were gone ; and though he was not able to be with us 
in body, yet his spirit was there ; and he thanked the 
Lord he had not been deceived — saying, " x\nd now I 
am satisfied that our Yearly Meeting continues to 
stand firm in the ever blessed truth, in which I 
rejoice.'' 

At another time he said to a friend who visited him, 



JAMES WHITE. 109 

in substance as follows : " In looking over my past 
life, I am sensible of many imperfections. I know we 
are poor, frail mortals, and liable to err, but I have 
endeavored to do the best I could in attending to the 
requirings of my Divine Master, and believe I shall be 
accepted of him ; but I have no merit of my own, 
nothing to trust in or build my hopes of salvation 
upon but the mercies of a gracious and bountiful 
Creator, and the merits of a glorious Redeemer, being 
in full accordance with the language of the apostle, 
that it is not by works of righteousness which we have 
done, but according to His mercy he saveth us, by 
the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the 
Holy Ghost. 

On the 12th of the Tenth month, his disorder hav- 
ing greatly increased, he suffered exceedingly, but 
kept remarkably patient and resigned ; and when a 
little relieved from the great oppression and difficulty 
of breathing which he labored under, he frequently 
quoted many Scripture passages, particularly the pro- 
phesies relating to the coming and sufferings of our 
holy Redeemer He often spoke of the fall of man, 
and the glorious plan of salvation by Christ ; of the 
great importance of his coming into the world ; of his 
sufferings, death, resurrection, and ascension, and that 
there was no other way into the fold of rest but by 
Him. 

He was at times wonderfully favored with the calm- 
ing influence of the Heavenly Father's love, yet at 



110 JAMES WHITE. 

other times he appeared almost destitute of divine 
aid ; but in these times of sore affliction and deep 
proving, he did not lose his confidence in the all sus- 
taining arm of divine help, repeating the language of 
Job, " Behold I go forward, but he is not there ; and 
backward, but I cannot perceive him ; on the left hand, 
where he doeth work, but I cannot behold him ; he 
hideth himself on the right hand that I cannot see 
him, but he knoweth the way that I take, when he 
hath tried me I shall come forth as gold." 

At another time, when his bodily sufferings were 
very great, he said: ^^My God ! my God ! why hast 
thou forsaken me," and soon after added : " Why art 
thou cast down, my soul ! and why art thou dis- 
quieted within me ? hope thou in God, for I shall yet 
praise him, who is the health of my countenance and 
my God." 

He frequently prayed that he might be favored 
with fortitude and patience to bear his great afflictions 
to the end, which was mercifully granted. 

His decline was very gradual ; and when near his 
close, he was frequently engaged in prayer and praise 
to the Lord in a low and harmonious voice, not many 
words of which could be understood. 

He was favored to retain his senses to the last, and 
manifested great meekness and patience. His re- 
deemed spirit quietly passed away from time to eter- 
nity on the morning of the 11th day of the Eleventh 
month, 1845, aged nearly seventy years; having 



DANIEL BAILEY. Ill 

been an acknowledged minister about twenty-six 
years. 

On the following day his remains were solemnly in- 
terred in Friends' burying-ground at Blue Kiverj at- 
tended by a large number of Friends and neighbors. 

Thus terminated the useful life of this dear friend, 
and while we are sensible of our great loss, we have 
the consoHng assurance, that through redeeming love 
and mercy the change to him is unspeakably glorious. 
And may we be encouraged to follow his example in 
Christian dedication, that with him we may be par- 
takers of that incorruptible inheritance, which is re- 
served for the righteous when time here shall be no 
more. 



DANIEL BAILEY. 

Memorial of Dover 3Ionthly Meeting of Friends^ Ohio^ 
concerning Daniel Bailey, deceased. 

The memory of our late dear friend, Daniel Bailey, 
being precious to many, we are induced to prepare a 
brief account of him, in the hope that his instructive 
example of uprightness, simplicity, and love of the 
truth, together with his peaceful close, may encourage 
to follow him as he followed Christ. 

He was born in the eastern part of the State of 
Virginia, the 31st day of the Twelfth month, 1777. 



112 DANIEL BAILEY, 

His parents were Abidan and Sarah Bailey, members 
of the religious Society of Friends ; who were con- 
cerned to train their children consistently with their 
profession ; his mother died when he was quite young, 
and his father several years before he arrived at man's 
estate. 

In the year 1804, he emigrated to the State of 
Ohio, and in the year 1807, he was married to Mary 
Haworth, daughter of George and Susannah Haworth, 
and was favored to raise a large family of children. 
His uprightness, simphcity, and benevolence tended 
not only to endear him to his friends and family, but 
to gain the esteem of his acquaintance generally. 

He occupied the station of an Elder, upward of 
twenty years, manifesting a sincere concern for the 
advancement of truth, and encouraging Friends, by 
precept and example, to a faithful discharge of the 
religious duty of attending all their meetings for Wor- 
ship and Discipline. Although he was a person of 
but few words, his labors for the maintainance of our 
various testimonies, and the strict observance of the 
order and discipline of our Society, were marked with 
much fervency of mind. 

He participated with Friends in the painful exercise 
occasioned by two separations in the Society, within 
the limits of Indiana Yearly Meeting, and manifested 
an unshaken belief in the fundamental doctrines of 
the Christian religion as held by our predecessors. 

The last separation took place a little before his last 



DANIEL BAILEY. 113 

illness, which gave him much deep concern of mind, 
particularly on account of several members of his 
own Monthly Meeting, who were disposed to join with 
the seceders, which concern was manifested by much 
tender and pathetic expostulation with some of them 
who came to see him before his death, desiring them 
to remember it as his last admonition for their good. 
A few weeks before his last illness, he was engaged 
as one of a committee of our Quarterly Meeting of 
Ministers and Elders, in visiting the members of that 
body with their famihes, and expressed much satisfac- 
tion in attending to the service. Before it was fully 
accomplished he was taken ill with a fever, though not 
entirely confined for a week or more at first, in which 
time he observed that although he felt himself weak- 
ening fast he had no pain, but of nights could fre- 
quently lie quiet and comfortable in body and mind, 
which he considered a peculiar favor. His fever con- 
tinuing to increase, he was seized with a violent pain 
in his side, which soon produced symptoms of disso- 
lution. A physician was called in, and medicine 
seemed to produce some relief, he being favored at 
intervals with ease, for which he remarked there was 
a cause of thankfulness. During the latter part of 
that night he slept comfortably, and in the morning 
he appeared to be refreshed. On seeing the sun shine 
soon after it rose, he very pleasantly said : " The sun 
is shining once more," and a friend replying that it 
was a very pleasant morning, he responded, "yes, to 



114 DANIEL BAI1.EY. 

me the pleasantest morning that I have ever known^ 
and it is marvelous to me." 

He continued to express the boundless love he felt 
in his heart toward our great and good Creator, and 
toward all his creatures. 

At another time he said to one of his daughters, 
^' I have been favored beyond what I ever expected ; 
my heart is full of love to every body, but I do not 
know whether this is a sign that I shall leave this 
world or not ; my children feel very near and dear to 
me, more particularly when I think of parting with 
them." At another time said, " It is marvelous how 
I have been w^eaned from the things of this world ; my 
outward affairs are no more to me than the leaves of 
the trees." On Third-day morning he grew worse, 
with much difficulty of breathing, and his wife being 
called into the room, he said to her, '- 1 am going," 
she being much affected, he added, " the Lord will 
bless thee." He then desired all his children to be 
sent for, which being done, when they arrived, and 
were mostly collected in the room, he first addressed 
those who had the care of rising families of children, 
desiring them to be mindful of their dear offspring, 
and bring them up in the nurture and admonition of 
the Lord, and to instruct them by precept and exam- 
ple in the principles of our religious Society. After 
which he exclaimed, " Oh ! it is a joyful day to me, 
though it may seem strange to some ; my body is 
very much distressed, but the Lord's favor to me is 



DANIEL BAILEY. 115 

beyond expression/' continuing, as at many other times 
to considerable length, in expressions of praise and 
adoration to his bountiful Redeemer, in language which 
cannot be correctly recited. In a short time afterward 
added, " 0, it has been a great comfort to me to think 
that all of my children are within the pale of our So- 
ciety." 

Shortly after expressed himself nearly in the same 
language, " What a great satisfaction it is when I am 
about to leave this world, that I can leave all my chil- 
dren under the care of so good a Society ;" desiring 
them to duly appreciate such a privilege, and espe- 
cially to be careful in the attendance of meetings, in a 
right disposition of mind. Then taking his wife by 
the hand, he said, " I wish thou couldst feel just as I 
do/' 

Then calling his two youngest sons, said to them : 
"I desire you to remember your mother (for she will 
have much upon her) and assist her to get to meet- 
ings, though meetings should come in a very busy 
time, no matter ; leave your outward business and 
take her to meetings, and you will be rewarded for it." 
Pain coming on very severe, he said : " Lord have 
mercy on me, for in thee alone do I put my trust." 

On Fifth-day, being in a sweet frame of mind, he 
frequently said to those about him, " I am in no pain, 
but feel very pleasant." Speaking further of the 
boundless love that filled his heart, and which over- 
flowed to the whole human family, and expressing 



116 DANIEL BAILEY. 

gratitude and thanks to his gracious Redeemer for his 
many and continued favors to him. To some of his 
children that were in the room with him, he said : "0, 
how good it is that I have my children around me." 
After a short pause he continued, " I desire to ask, if 
you felt the tender love that I now feel; I have 
sought after it when laboring in my fields ; I have 
craved it more than my ordinary food. I desire you 
to strive after it; I want you seek for it when you are 
in meetings." 

Although he manifested much piety in life, and had 
experienced, as we believe, in a large degree, the reno- 
vating influence of the love of God in his heart, which 
works repentance, purifies the soul, and through mercy 
and forgiveness, and that redemption which comes 
through our Lord Jesus Christ, renders it fit for the 
kingdom of heaven, yet he had an humble opinion of 
his own religious attainments. 

On the day before his decease, he expressed to those 
who were present, that he had thought at the begin- 
ning of his sickness, that much still lay on him to do, 
but he had since found the burden taken away, 
through the tender mercy of the Lord, no doubt; 
whereupon he broke forth, " 0, praises be unto 
him who hath helped me ! 0, how can I forbear 
to praise so gracious a Redeemer!" Then en- 
treating all who were present to seek an interest in 
Christ. 

On the evening before his departure, he said to one 



DANIEL BMLEY. 117 

of his daughters who stood by his bedside, ^^ I desire 
thee not to set thy mind too much on the things of 
this world, but set it on things above, and prepare to 
meet me in heaven; this has been my prayer for 
thee." It being evident that death was fast approach- 
ing, his sons were called in, and his brother informed 
him that his four sons were all present, if he wished 
to see them. He looked on them, and said : " Ah ! I 
am almost gone, and I want you to settle all your 
affairs in peace, and never let in hardness on any 
occasion, never let it have place within your breasts, for 
if you do it will ruin your peace ; and further, as you 
are passing through the world, and in the necessary 
intercourse with men, you, no doubt, at some time, 
will apprehend you are wronged, or unjustly treated ; 
but never let in any hardness against any mortal, 
but rather suffer wrong, for it will destroy the sweet 
peace. 

That evening, a few hours before his departure, he 
took a solemn leave of his physician, expressing his 
satisfaction with his attendance, and a hope that they 
w^ould meet again in heaven. 

It would exceed the design of this short account 
of our dear friend to attempt to set down in detail all 
his impressive language, he being much engaged the 
last three days of his life to counsel his family, and 
friends who came to visit him, being desirous that all 
might come to see the beauty of holiness, and to have 

a foretaste of the glorious reward of the righteous in 
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118 DANIEL BAILEY. 

heaven, in the prospect of which he often broke forth 
in very moving and sublime ejaculations and praise to 
his glorious Redeemer, even to his own admiration, as 
he expressed, saying that he seemed constrained to do 
so, and that he could not hold his peace. 

Notwithstanding the violent pains of death which 
racked his frame, he was favored with understanding 
and a composed mind, and made some remarks on the 
manner of his burial, expressing a desire he had often 
felt that Friends, on such occasions, may be duly 
thoughtful of good order, in affording opportunity at 
the grave for a pause, suited to the solemn occasion, 
and that common or unnecessary conversation might 
be refrained from when met at the house in order to 
accompany the corpse. Then he said, " I now feel 
clear, and leave it to the judgment of Friends to do 
as they think right." 

A few minutes before his close, he requested those 
around his bed to let him alone, and not trouble in the 
conflict. A few more struggles ended the suffering 
scene. His spirit being released from its earthly tab- 
ernacle, took its flight forever to dwell, we reverently 
trust, in the presence of his Lord and Saviour. He 
departed this life the 12th of the Seventh month, 
1844. His remains were interred at Dover Meeting- 
house, on First-day, the 14th of the same month pre- 
ceding the pubHc meeting for Worship, which was large 
and solemn. 

Let the Elders that rule well be accounted worthy 



ELIZABETH BOND. 119 

of double honor, 1 Tim. v, 17, and we can in no way 
so truly honor their memory as by following their 
good example, and yielding obedience in uprightness 
of heart to the word of divine grace, by which they 
obtained a good report, and through faith and patience 
inherit the promises. 



ELIZABETH BOND. 

A Memorial of Dover Month!?/ Meeting of Friends^ 
Indiana^ concerning that worthy Elder in the Churchy 
Elizabeth Bond, who died on the l^th of the Fourth 
mouthy 1848, aged nearly ninetg4hree yearly having 
leen a Minister about sixty-seven years. 

This, our beloved friend, Elizabeth Bond, was the 
daughter of Thomas and Sarah Beales, respectable 
members of the Society of Friends, in Guilford county, 
North Carolina, where she was born on the 25th of 
Fourth month, 1755. 

When she was young, her parents removed and set- 
tled in the hmits of Westfield Monthly Meeting, in 
Stokes county, of which she was a member for many 
years. She was favored to yield obedience to the ten- 
dering visitations and impressions of divine love made 
on her mind, when quite young, often seeking places 
of retirement j and through the operations of Divine 



120 FXIZABETH BOND. 

Grace was favored with an evidence of being near to 
Ilim^ who said, " Suffer httle children to come unto 
me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom 
of heaven." Thus she experienced preservation from 
many of the vanities and foUies that young people are 
often led into. 

In the twentieth year of her age, she was married 
to Samuel Bond, a worthy Friend, whom she found to 
be a true helpmeet, both temporal and spiritual, and 
was soon afterward appointed to the service of an over- 
seer, which station she filled to the satisfaction of her 
friends for several years, being well qualified therefor, 
and careful to wait for right openings to speak to 
offenders. 

About this time impressions became strong on her 
mind that if faithful, she would be called to the work 
of the ministry ; very fervent were the breathings of 
her soul, to the Heavenly Father, for strength to per- 
form his will, and being instructed in the school of 
Christ, she came forth very acceptably in the minis- 
try, in the twenty-sixth year of her age. 

Being anxious to learn to read, as she was utterly 
destitute of any hterary education, she devoted such 
portions of her time as could be spared from the cares 
of an increasing family to that purpose, and with her 
husband's assistance, learned to read the Holy Scrip- 
tures and other useful writings, to her great satis- 
faction. 

In 1812, her dear and much beloved husband was 



ELIZABETH BOND. 121 

rempved from works to rewards, yet under so great a 
trial, by dwelling in a state of true resignation to the 
divine will, her mind was borne up under this severe 
affliction. 

She had been frequently, previous to the death of 
her husband, engaged in visiting the meetings belong- 
ing to her own Yearly Meeting, likewise in the weighty 
service of visiting families, and in the fall of the year 
1812, with the approbation of her friends, she visited 
some of the meetings of Friends in Ohio and Indiana, 
and returned with the reward of peace. 

In 1814, she removed, with her family, and settled 
within the limits of Whitewater Monthly Meeting, 
Indiana, and by the setting up of new meetings, she 
subsequently became a member of Dover Monthly 
Meeting. 

In 1820, with the unity of her friends, she visited 
most of the meetings of Friends belonging to North 
Carolina Yearly Meeting, much to the relief and com- 
fort of her mind, and, by accounts received, to the 
satisfaction of those where her lot was cast. After 
her visit to North Carolina, she w^as frequently en- 
gaged in visiting the meetings and the families of 
Friends, within the limits of her own Yearly Meeting, 
until a very advanced age. 

She was a diligent attenderof meetings, frequently 
walking three, and sometimes four, miles to attend 
them, being disabled from riding on horseback, and 
she continued faithful in the performance of this reli- 



122 ELIZABETH BOND. 

gious duty as long as her bodily strength would admit. 
On one occasion, which she afterward several times 
spoke of as an encouragement to others, she said that 
when about starting to meeting, great difficulties were 
cast up before her — her lameness, and the badness of 
the roads were such that she would not be able to get 
there — and making a little halt with her mind turned 
inward, a language appeared to be uttered — Go, and 
I will go with thee — remember David would not offer 
that unto the Lord that cost him nothing — a light 
seemed to shine round about her, and she went on — 
it was a highly favored meeting, and, said she, " I 
returned home much better, and with a thankful 
heart." 

She was a tender mother, a good neighbor, and a 
true sympathizer with the poor and afflicted ; and as 
a minister, sound in doctrine, carefully waiting for a 
right qualification, her testimonies being clear and 
edifying, and mostly delivered in few words. 

She bore a faithful testimony against a spirit of in- 
subordination to the wholesome discipline and order of 
our society, and of unbelief in the doctrines of the 
Christian religion as held by Friends ; and in times 
of deep trials among Friends, on account of a dividing 
spirit that was permitted to enter, she stood as an up- 
right pillar, firmly established on the sure rock, and 
was remnrkably favored with a clear discernment, as 
was plainly manifested by her appropriate remarks 
concerning the state of meetings and individuals. 



ELIZABETH BOND. 123 

Notwithstanding she was, in a great degree, deprived 
of hearing in her latter years, yet she was as a mes- 
senger, ^often encouraging the faithful to hold on their 
way, and warning the disobedient, inviting them to 
return, repent and live. 

In the ninetieth year of her age, she visited all the 
families belonging to her own Monthly Meeting, and 
when it was finished, she said she believed it was her 
last visit ; for it seemed like a farewell to her friends 
in their families, and she felt the reward of peace. 

In the latter part of her life, she often expressed 
her deep concern that the ministry in our society 
might be kept pure in the simplicity, in the life and 
power of truth, clear of the wisdom of men ; and also 
that Friends would come more from under the influ- 
ence and love of this world, and be more a spiritually 
minded people, living more according to our profession 
than many do in the present day. 

Her humility and simplicity in manners and dress 
greatly adorned the doctrines she held forth to others. 
She often said her dear Lord and Master would never, 
in any age of her life, give her leave to follow the vain 
and changing fashions and customs of this world ; but 
that her clothing and the furniture of her house should 
be plain and simple. She said : " I have, in latter 
days, had to view, with sorrow of heart, many Friends, 
professing to be a plain people, and to bear the name 
of Christ, but denying him in the decoration of their 
poor bodies, after the vain fashions and customs of 



124 ELIZABETH BOND. 

this world, and in the ornamental furniture of their 
houses ; yet I believe there are many who feel bound 
to the law and the testimony, and who often have to 
mourn on account of these things ; and it has been 
my prayer that there might be more faithful laborers 
raised up to stand in the gap, and to turn the battle 
to the gate." 

She was mostly confined to the house for nearly 
two years before her decease ; but being favored with 
a clear understanding, many weighty expressions and 
remarks dropped from her lips. 

At a Preparative Meeting of ministers and elders, 
held at the house where she lived, by her request, a 
few weeks before her decease, she was remarkably 
favored in testimony, and spoke much of the goodness 
of the Lord to poor fallen man, encouraging those 
present to faithfulness in serving their Divine Master, 
and pressing upon them the necessity of keeping up 
the watch unto prayer, saying : '' I find it necessary 
for me to watch yet." 

At one time, she expressed that she had, in the 
present affliction, been favored with a peaceful mind, ' 
and she felt the love of the Father to be near to sup- 
port, and that she loved the Lord above all things. 
My dear children and grandchildren and my dear 
fiiends feel very near ; but I can give them all up, 
though I love them with the Father's love ; and I feel 
it for my dear friends everywhere — I feel that I love 
them with the love of the Father. 



ELIZABETH BOND. 125 

The remainder of her days, her conversation, both 
in the family and to those who called to see her, 
evinced that her mind was stayed on that treasure 
that faileth not. 

On Fifth-day night, the 6th day of Fourth month, 
about one week before her departure, she was taken 
with a pain in the stomach and great soreness, which 
she had been subject to for many years, but of late 
more frequently. She continued quite unwell until 
First-day, then seemed to mend until Third-day, when 
she said she felt nearly as well as common, but said 
that it seemed to her that her days were near an end, 
and that she had desired that she might continue to 
feel a sense of the goodness of the Lord, which had 
been granted; for she was favored with the sweet 
incomes of the Master's love. 

About daylight on Fourth-day morning, the pain 
returned in her stomach, with a severe cough, which 
continued till about noon, when the cough left her, 
which she said was a great favor, the pain still con- 
tinuing ; and being told she was near the Kingdom, 
she replied: "I hope to find entrance, and it is a 
comfortable hope, as I have a clear evidence of 
acceptance." 

About two hours before her decease, she asked 
what time it was, and being told, she said : " I am 
here yet, and I do not know how much longer I shall 
remain here; but I hope the Lord will give me 
patience to bear all that He may be pleased to lay 
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126 ELIZABETH BOND. 

upon me ;" and then, in a very solemn manner, said : 
" Death, death ! what a solemn thing it is when 
rightly thought of; and it is my greatest desire that 
all may be truly given up to the Great Potter, to be 
gust what He may be pleased to make of them, and 
to do His will, that they may witness and know a 
being qualified and prepared to enter the kingdom of 
heaven." 

A little before her close, those around were brought 
into much sympathy and tenderness on seeing her 
sufferings so great. She was asked what she wanted 
done ; she replied : " Nothing that you can do, but I 
desire to w^ait patiently ; yet if it is the Lord's will to 
take me now, it will be a welcome release." 

She was quite sensible to the last, and having done 
her day's work in the daytime, was no doubt found 
ready to render up her accounts with joy, and she 
quietly passed away a little before eleven o'clock on 
Fifth-day evening, the 13th of Fourth month, 1818. 
A solemn covering was spread over the minds of those 
present, and the language of Holy Writ was brought 
into remembrance — '' Precious in the sight of the Lord 
is the death of his saints," and "Blessed are the dead 
which die in the Lord from henceforth ; yea, saith the 
Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their 
works do follow them.'' 



JOHN JAY. 127 



JOHN JAY, 

A Memorial of 3Iill Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends^ 
Ohio^ eoncerning John Jay^ deceased. 

" Blessed are the dead wliich die in tlie Lord from henceforth ; 
yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their 
works do follow them." 

The memory of our late dear friend, John Jay, 
being precious to many of us, we are induced to pre- 
pare a brief account of him, hoping that his example 
of uprightness, simplicity and love of the truth, to- 
gether with his peaceful close, may encourage others 
to follow him as he followed Christ. 

He was born in South Carolina, the 12th day of the 
Ninth month, 1800. His parents, Jesse and Sarah 
Jay, were members of the religious Society of Friends. 
About the third year of his age, his father removed 
from South Carolina, and settled in the State of Ohio, 
where he, having to encounter the disadvantages of 
settling a new country, and being in limited circum- 
stances, our friend, had not the opportunity of acquir- 
ing much school learning. 

On the subject of his education, he remarks, that 
having the Holy Scriptures for a reading book at 
school, was a source of much comfort and advantage 
to me, lasting impressions being made thereby, and a 



128 JOHN JAY. 

love begotten in my mind for the sacred truths therein 
recorded. 

" I had a sense given me^ in very early life, of the 
Divine Being ; that it was in Him I lived, moved and 
had my being ; and from the same I felt condemna- 
tion for evil, and justified for well doing. But 0! 
how often have I disobeyed and grieved His Holy 
Spirit ! for I gave way to associate with bad company, 
for which I often felt condemnation. But the merci- 
ful God was pleased to visit me again and again, and 
I have at times, when obedient to manifested duty, on 
seeing my associates coming to my father's house on 
the first day of the week, who I knew were coming 
for sport and vanity, taken the Bible, concealed myself 
and spent my time in reading ; and ! the joy and 
peace I experienced for so doing. In the twenty- 
second year of his age, he was married to Keturah 
HoUingsworth, who proved to be a sympathizing com- 
panion, and prepared to unite with him in a self-deny- 
ing course of Christian dedication. After entering 
into this important engagement, and having the 
charge of an increasing family, he suffered not the 
cares of this life to prevent him and his family from 
attending religious meetings, or attending to other 
religious duties ; and was truly exemplary in his life 
and conversation among men, and concerned for the 
right maintenance of the principles of our religious 
society, evidencing to those who knew him that his 
concern was more to lay up treasure in heaven than 



JOHN JAY. 129 

to become great and rich in this world; and as he 
thus hved in the way of self-denial, wiUing to bear 
the cross of Christ, he became more and more useful 
in religious society ; and about the thirty-fourth ,year 
of his age, he came forth in the ministry ; and al- 
though he was but short in communication, yet the 
evidence was sealed on the minds of Friends, that he 
was led therein by that Power which alone can rightly 
qualify for His work; and in the thirty-ninth year 
of his age, he was recommended to the station of a 
minister. 

His concern was great for the welfare of our reli- 
gious society, and that its members should live con- 
sistently with the profession they were making to the 
world. To the lukewarm, and those who seemed in- 
different in regard to their religious duties, he was 
concerned to speak closely, and he manifested a lively 
interest for the religious and guarded education of 
of the youth. Strong were his pleadings with them 
to turn their backs upon the many vain and transitory 
things of time, which, as they are indulged in, lead 
their minds away from the truth; often exhorting 
them to remember their Creator in the days of their 
youth, and setting before them the necessity of bow- 
ing before that Almighty Power, unto whom we 
must all render an account of the deeds done in the 
body. 

His concern for his own children remained during 
his life; often conversing with them, and showing 



130 JOHN JAY. 

them the necessity there was of living in love one 
with another, and of seeking first the kingdom of 
God and his righteousness, then all things necessary 
wouljd be added ; and during his last illness, he wrote 
an epistle of advice to them, to which was appended 
a petition on their behalf 

From the time that he was recommended to the 
station of a minister until the winter of 1846, he 
visited in gospel love most of the meetings belonghig 
to our Yearly Meeting, and many of them several 
times ; beside having often engaged in family visits 
within the limits of his own Quarterly Meeting. 

Soon after returning from our Yearly Meeting, in 
1846, he was taken with a cold, which seemed to 
affect his lungs, and produced a considerable cough, 
but did not entirely confine him. 

In the Twelfth month following, notwithstanding 
his weak state of health, he performed a religious 
visit to Alum Creek Quarterly Meeting, and some of 
the meetings thereto belonging ; and after returning 
home from this visit, he continued feeble in body, and 
in the forepart of the Second month following, he was 
seized with a violent hemorrhage of the lungs, which 
soon reduced him to a very weak state, and fears were 
entertained by his friends and relations that his re- 
moval was near ; but at this time he seemed to be 
resigned to his condition, exhorting and encouraging 
those of his friends who visited him to faithfulness ; 
laboring while health and strength were granted unto 



JOHN JAY. 131 

them^ to be prepared to meet their change, adding, 
that although he could not see much in his way, yet 
he had been led to look very closely into his condition, 
and felt that he had nothing to depend upon but the 
mercies of a Redeemer. 

Continuing very low for some time, and after about 
three months confinement to his house, he recovered 
so that he was again able to attend meeting ; and in 
the Eighth month following, he attended Miami Quar- 
terly Meeting. After this time, his disease, which was 
considered to be a pulmonary consumption, increasing, 
he did not go much more from home during the re- 
mainder of the summer and fal^except to attend some 
meetings; undergoing much fatigue to accomplish the 
same, often saying that it was a trial to him to be de- 
prived of this privilege ; but he wished to be content 
in the will of the Lord. 

During the forepart of the following winter, his 
health continued nearly the same, but the coldness 
of the weather rendered it more difficult for him to 
attend religious meetings. 

He had expressed a desire, for some time before, 
that he might be permitted to attend the three 
Monthly Meetings belonging to his Quarterly Meet- 
ing, in the Second month; and when the time arrived, 
though weak, he attended said meetings, and the 
Quarterly Meeting of Ministers and Elders ; he then 
returned home, and this proved to be the last meeting 
that he ever attended. 



132 JOHN JAY. 

When in attendance at his own Monthly Meeting, 
he was engaged in a weighty testimony and fervent 
supplication, that he might be preserved faithful 
during his remaining time. 

He informed his friends before the close of the 
meeting, that he had something on his mind to com- 
municate, after which he would be under the necessity 
of leaving the meeting. He then delivered a solemn 
address, reminding parents of the great responsibility 
resting on them, of guarding the youth from the 
snares and vices so abundant in the w^orld, particu- 
larly with regard to improper reading. He then left 
the meeting. From that time, being about the middle 
of the Second month, his health gradually declined, 
and he seemed sensible that his close was near, and 
said that it aflbrded him consolation that he could 
look forward to the time when he should be at rest 
and peace. 

During his confinement, he wrote as follows: "I 
believe our Society is owned by Christ, the great 
Head of the Church, and I would not part with my 
right, and the interest I feel therein, for many worlds 
like this. Therefore hearken, dear young friends, as 
well as old ; it is with me to testify that none of us 
can do better than to live consistently with the prin- 
ciples that we profess. 

" ! may you, beloved youth, whose lot it may be 
to read these lines, have an ear open to hear what the 
Spirit saith unto the churches, and a heart willing to 



JOHN JAY. 133 

obey the Divine Teacher, that you may look forward 
to the end of your time, and be prepared for a glorious 
and joyful meeting in heaven, where parting shall be 
no more, and where the sorrows and troubles of this 
world cannot come." 

His mind now seemed to be on the awful change 
that awaited him, and his remarks on that subjecfc 
were very impressive. 

At one time he said : " It is a very solemn con- 
sidBration, my dear relations, that we are to be parted, 
and never, never see each other again in this world ; 
but it is my desire that we may all so walk, that we 
may meet and remain together in a better world. I 
sometimes think that I should be glad if the Lord 
would be pleased to take me away at such a time as 
this; but I desire to be in submission to His will." 

During his confinement, which was about two 
months, he was much visited by a wide circle of 
friends, to w^hom he made many weighty and im- 
pressive remarks, expressing, that although medicine 
had failed to give any relief to his body, yet he was 
permitted at times to partake of a little of that 
healing balsam which comes from the Great Phy- 
sician of value, and is strengthening to the never- 
dving soul. 

He was, for near four weeks previous to his death, 
deprived of his vocal utterance, and communicated 
his remarks by whispering, to which he alluded a 
short time before his end as follows : " It is a great 



134 JOHN JAY. 

trial to me to be deprived of the privilege of con- 
versing with you more iDtelhgibly ; and I would be 
glad if my voice should be restored before I depart, 
that I might say something to my friends. I hope, 
however, to be satisfied and resigned to His will, who 
order eth all things w^ell." 

At another time, alluding to his service in the min- 
istry, he said : " I feel that I have been called to 
exercise the one talent ; but I have tried to do my 
duty. I have regretted that I was not earlier more 
faithful; it would have been better for me to have 
given up sooner." 

The day before his decease, he appeared evidently 
to be growing weaker, but remained for several hours 
to lie quiet, except occasionally coughing spells, until 
in the evening, when he called his nearest relations 
around his bed, and taking each one by the hand, say- 
ing :- " I do not know whether I shall go this evening 
or not — I want to be prepared ;" and bidding them 
an affectionate farewell, he remained quiet until near 
nine o'clock in the morning of the 11th of the Fourth 
month, 1848, when he quietly breathed his last; and 
we doubt not his redeemed spirit has entered into 
eternal rest and peace. 

His remains were interred at Mill Creek, on the 
13th, attended by a large number of friends and 
neighbors, after which a solemn meeting was held. 



DAVID OSBORN. 135 



DAVID OSBOEN, 

Compiled from the Memorial of Alum Creek Monthly 
Meeting^ Ohio. 

David Osborn was the son of Paul and Abigail 
Osborn, of Danvers, Massachusetts, and was born 
First month Sth, 1770. At the age of twenty-seven, 
he was united in marriage with Anne Benedict, and 
in the year 1815, they removed and settled within 
the limits of Alum Creek Monthly Meeting, In the 
year 1817, he was appointed to the station of an 
elder. 

When a youth, near the close of his apprenticeship, 
his mind became more thoroughly awakened than it 
had previously been to the consideration of eternal 
things, and of the necessity of greater self-denial; 
and as he grew in years, he evidently grew in grace, 
and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
Christ. He was diligent in the attendance of our re- 
ligious meetings, being careful punctually to observe 
the hour of meeting, and to retire immediately after 
its close. His solid deportment before, during and 
after meetings was striking and instructive. He was 
much given up to the service of truth, both in matters 
pertaining to the discipline of the society, and in 
accompanying ministering Friends in their travels; 



136 DAVID OSBORN. 

and he was also much in the practice of visiting and 
administering to the necessities of the poor, the sick 
and afflicted. 

For more than twenty years, it was his daily prac- 
tice to read a portion of the Holy Scriptures in 
his family, and having derived much benefit there- 
from, he often felt constrained to encourage his friends 
in the same practice. He set a commendable example 
of plainness and Christian simplicity in manners and 
dress, and in the furniture of his house, and was re- 
markable for his candor, his unfeigned humiUty, and 
his unassuming yet fervent piety. 

His last illness was short but severe, and borne 
with great patience and cheerful resignation. He 
conversed but little during it, and this being spoken 
of in his presence^ he remarked, that there is a great 
difference in persons in regard to expressing their 
feelings at such a time ; some have but little to say, 
and others seem full to overflowing ; that he had not 
felt like saying much about himself, feeling that he 
was but a poor weak creature ; that he felt resigned 
to his lot ; that he had expected to recover from the 
commencement of this attack ; that he saw nothing 
in his way, yet he did not know why there should 
not be, for he merited nothing — it was all of mercy. 

When it was evident that his end was approaching, 
it was observed to him that his release was doubtless 
near at hand, and that a mansion was prepared for 
him in the Heavenly Father's house; to which he 



BENAJAH HIAIT. 137 

made reply : " That is a great deal to say ; though I 
see nothing in my way, yet I may be mistaken. 
When I look back and see my many short-comings 
and misses, I can hardly look for this. It is only in 
mercy — great mercy ; it is our duty to be resigned to 
His will." 

Nearly the last words which he distinctly articu- 
lated were these: "There remaineth a rest to the 
people of God. I have been so deficient I cannot 
claim it, but I have a hopef^ adding in a very sweet 
and melodious tone of voice : " We have a merciful 
Creator and Redeemer." 

He died on the 14th day of the Eleventh month, 
1849, aged seventy-nine years, ten months and nine 
days, and was interred in Friends' burying-ground, at 
Alum Creek. 



BENAJAH HIATT. 

A Memorial of Milford Monthly Meeting of Friends^ 
Indiana^ comer ni7ig Benajah Hiatt, deceased. 

The loss of this, our dear and honored friend in the 
truth, is deeply felt among us. His exemplary and 
Christian course, his encouraging and edifying conver- 
sation, together with his gospel labors, many have 
cause long to remember. 



138 BENAJAH HIATT. 

And as it hath pleased Him, whose way is perfect, to 
remove our dear friend from among us, w^e believe it 
may be right to issue a memorial concerning him. 

This we do under a solemn sense of our loss, and 
that while the faithful are taken away, too few lay it 
deeply to heart, or endeavor to follow their example. 
Yet we trust all would desire to die the death of the 
righteous, and that their latter end might be like his. 
In speaking of our friend as a servant of the Lord, 
bound to the law and the testimony, we desire to as- 
cribe the gift and the glory to Him alone, by whose 
grace he was what he was. 

He was born in Guilford county. North Carolina, 
on the 17th of Seventh month, 1773. His parents, 
William and Charity Hiatt, were orderly, exemplary 
Friends, and concerned to train up their children con- 
sistently with their profession. While quite a youth, 
he was brought to think of a future state, and the ten- 
dering influences of the spirit of divine grace made a 
deep impression on his mind, and produced a sensible 
and visible influence upon his manners and conduct, 
inducing him ta avoid much of that lightness and 
vanity which frequently appear in youth, on which ac- 
count he was remarked as orderly. 

Soon after coming to his twenty-first year, he en- 
gaged with an uncle, who was a saddler, to learn the 
trade. His conduct was still remarked as orderly and 
exemplary, and although he was of like frailties and 
passions of others, yet, as he yielded to the secret in- 



I 
BENAJAH HIATT. 139 

timations of the spirit of Truths he grew in grace 
and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
Christ ; and he has been heard to relate, that faith- 
fulness to these secret intimations had not only pre- 
served him from associating with the vain and thought- 
lesSj but on one occasion in particular, from being in- 
volved in a snare and difficulty — a favor for which he 
was ever afterward thankful. 

To firmness and decision of character were added, 
through divine grace, a gentle, affectionate, and retir- 
ing disposition. These qualities made him an agree- 
able associate for the sober-minded, whether old or 
young. 

He was married in the 24th year of his age, to 
Elizabeth White, daughter of Isaac and Catharine 
White, who proved a steady and valuable companion 
through the various probations of a long and useful 
life. They entered into their near and interesting 
connection possessed of very Httle property, and he 
had but a moderate share of school learning; yet, 
being industrious and diligent in business, upright in 
his dealings, and remarkably punctual in complying 
with his engagements, his pecuniary affairs prospered, 
and he soon procured the means of being comfortably 
settled. He was very careful at this period, and in all 
after life, about entering into debt, or making engage- 
ments without being well satisfied of his ability to 
fulfill them punctually. Liberality and benevolence 
were prominent features in his character ; in contribu- 



140 BENAJAH HI ATT. 

tions for Society pnrposes, or for the relief of the poor 
and needy, he was among the foremost of his ability — 
a practice which he recommended to others. 

His temporal affairs were kept in great subjection 
to religious duty. When about home, he usually 
spent a portion of the day in reading in the Scrip- 
tures or some other good book, frequently having 
some of his children seated by him; and on meeting 
days it was his practice to suspend business, and the 
family were taken to meeting. He manifested great 
interest in the welfare of Society, and was much en- 
gaged under appointments for the right ordering of 
the affairs of the Church, and was remarkable for his 
readiness to leave his domestic concerns, to assist on 
their way such Friends as were traveling through the 
neighborhood in Truth's service. 

Being impressed with the evils of intemperance, 
and believing the practice of using ardent spirits as 
an article of drink (even in a small way) as unsafe 
and unnecessary, he became prepared to use his influ- 
ence in promoting the entire disuse of it among Friends, 
and in discouraging its use, both by example and pre- 
cept, wherever opportunity seemed to offer. 

The subject of slavery had long been one of deep 
concern to many Friends, and the Yearly Meeting in 
North Carohna had, through much labor by faithful 
Friends in various parts, brought about the emancipa- 
tion of the slaves held by its members, and established 
a point of discipline against holding slaves ; yet much 



BENAJAH HIATT. 141 

remained to be done in the way of public reform, with 
a view to effect the legal abolition of slavery through- 
out the State. In this he was actively engaged, ex- 
erting his influence for many years to bring about this 
desirable object, and for the welfare of the colored 
population in general. 

He traveled considerably as companion and pilot to 
ministering Friends, to which service he seemed much 
given up, and in which he was very useful. 

Although his education was quite limited, yet he 
gave decided encouragement and liberal support to 
the religious and literary instruction of the rising 
generation. But he much discouraged light, vain 
reading, such as is contained in many books and in 
most of the periodicals of the day, believing it calcu- 
lated to divert the mind from the simplicity of the 
truth, and to disqualify it for appreciating the value 
of the Holy Scriptures, and all other religious books. 
In the pontics of the day he took very little part, and 
discouraged all political excitement, in which some of 
our members suffer their minds at times to be en- 
tangled. 

As a father and head of a family, he discharged the 
duties and responsibilities in much faithfulness, and 
having the affection, he still retained the authority over 
his household; and his Christian care was such as to 
make a lasting impression for good on many who were 
subjects of it. And although he entertained an hum- 
ble opinion of his own abilities and attainments, yet 
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142 BENAJAH HIATT. 

by yielding to the influence of divine grace^ which, 
through faith, ever remains to be sufficient to sustain 
the dedicated follower of Christ, his mind became pre- 
pared for the work of the ministry. His communica- 
tions were seldom extensive, but were satisfactory and 
edifying to his friends. 

On one occasion he visited, with the approbation of 
his friends, several families of colored people, residing 
in the neighborhood, for their help and encouragement, 
which proved satisfactory. 

In 1823, he was acknowledged a minister of the 
gospel ; his life and conversation corresponding with 
the doctrine he preached to others. 

Our friend had long deplored the existence of 
slavery, and labored much for its suppression, and the 
amelioration of the condition of the colored people ; 
and as the thought of raising and leaving a family in 
that country in the midst of such cruelty and oppres- 
sion, was very unpleasant, he looked toward removing 
to a free State ; and on finding his way clear, he ac- 
cordingly removed to Indiana, in 1824, and settled in 
the limits of this meeting, where he resided the re- 
mainder of his days. In 1827, he visited, with the 
approbation of his Monthly Meeting, some families 
who were not members. 

He never traveled extensively in the work of the 
ministry ; but being firm in the doctrines of the gos- 
pel, with a clear view of the value of religious union 
and fellowship, he was called into much service by 



BENAJAH HIATT. 143 

Society, and his services have been useful and helpful 
to Friends, particularly through the separations and 
schisms that have been permitted to come upon our 
Society of latter years. 

In 1831, with the unity of his Monthly Meeting, 
he attended New Garden Quarterly Meeting, and vis- 
ited the meetings constituting it. And from this 
time to the year 1845, he was frequently engaged, 
with the approbation of his friends, in religious visits 
to many of the different meetings within the limits of 
our Yearly Meeting, and some of the families ; and 
when about home, in addition to his gospel labors 
there, he was frequently engaged in visiting neighbor- 
ing meetings, the sick, the aged and the infirm, and 
many others whom he thought needed the countenance 
of a friend. 

The last meeting he attended was his own particu- 
lar week-day meeting in the Ninth month, 1847, be- 
ing very unwell at the time. In the meeting he feel- 
ingly expressed a desire for the encouragement of 
Friends, that they might have faith and faint not ; 
citing the passage of Scripture, '^ If ye then being 
evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, 
how^ much more shall your Heavenly Father give the 
Holy Spirit to them that ask him." 

From that time his illness (which appeared to be a 
kind of intermittent fever) continued, though for a 
while in a mild form, not confining him tC his bed, but 
he seemed to be impressed with an apprehension that 



144 BENAJAH HI ATT. 

he would not recover, several times remarking that he 
thought it would be his last illness. In a short time 
his complaint so increased that his friends and rela- 
tions were doubtful of his recovery, and for a few days 
he was so as not to converse, declined taking any 
nourishment, and lay very quietly; but becoming some 
better, he again conversed freely and aflectionately, 
retaining his usual faculties, and seemed to enjoy the 
company of his friends who came to visit him. 

Our Yearly Meeting now coming on (being the first 
that he had been prevented from attending since his 
residence within its limits), he manifested a lively in- 
terest in the affairs of the Church, inquiring, when 
opportunity offered, after the Yearly Meeting, saying 
that though he was not able to be present, yet in his 
mind he took a part. 

He also expressed some thoughtfulness, whether he 
had not, in his late low condition, been too anxious 
to depart; but he was now thankful that he felt 
more resigned to await the right time, manifesting 
entire resignation — quietly awaiting his approaching 
change. 

He expressed a concern for the welfare of his own 
particular meeting, and endeavored to encourage to 
faithfulness some friends, on whom he apprehended 
the weight of upholding it to the honor of truth, 
would much depend. 

He also mentioned his burial, and desired that he 
might be laid away in that plain, becoming manner in 



JESSE HUNT, 145 

which he had endeavored to live. His decease took 
place, in great quietness, on the 14th of Tenth month, 
1847, in the seventy-fourth year of his age, and we 
have a comfortable assurance that, through redeeming 
love and mercy, his spirit has been admitted into that 
rest prepared for the righteous. 

His burial (which was in Friends' burying-ground 
at Milford), on the 16th, was largely attended by 
Friends and others. 



JESSE HUNT. 

Compiled from the Memorial of Newlerry Monthly 
Meeting^ Ohio. 

He was the son of Jacob and Lydia Hunt, and was 
born in Grayson county, Virginia, Sixth month, 27th, 
1810. His parents removed to the limits of Newberry 
Monthly Meeting, Ohio, in the year 1816. In the 
23d year of his age he was united in marriage with 
Anna, d'aughter of Henry and Sarah Moon. 

It is noted that his deportment was orderly, he was 
diligent in the attendance of our religious meeting, 
and manifested a lively interest in the affairs of the 
Society, and a deep concern for its welfare. 

In the twenty-third year of his age he was appointed 
to the station of an elder. In the discharge of his 



146 JESSE HUNT. 

duty in this station he deeply felt the responsibility 
which devolved upon him^ and the necessity there 
was for waiting for a right qualification in the perform- 
ance of any service which might be required at his 
hands. He was frequently engaged in laboring for 
the maintenance of love and unity among Friends, 
particularly in his neighborhood, and for the proper 
support of our various Christian Testimonies ; and in 
matters appertaining to the discipline of the Church, 
his judgment was clear and sound and much valued 
by Friends. In the early stages of his last illness he 
was impressed with the belief that he would not re- 
cover, and an earnest desire pervaded his mind that 
he might know himself prepared to meet his final 
change. He was afterward, through adorable merc}^, 
permitted to feel that his sins were blotted out, and 
his transgressions forgiven, through the blood of the 
Lamb. He was also deeply concerned for the young 
friends of his Monthly Meeting, and on one occasion, 
addressing his nephew, he exhorted him to " put thy 
trust in Him who alone is able to preserve thee from 
the snares and temptations of this alluring world." 
When it appeared that his final close was near at 
hand, his family was summoned to his bedside, and 
after taking an affectionate leave of his wife and chil- 
dren, and giving them appropriate advice, he exhorted 
them " to prepare to meet him in heaven, where he 
believed he was going," and "to grieve not for him, 
for their loss would be his eternal gain." Soon after 



JEREMIAH HUBBARD. 147 

he said, "0 glorious things I have seen this night. The 
light of ten thousand suns is nothing in comparison 
to the light I have seen. I have seen angels worship- 
ing around the throne of God, and I have faith to 
believe I soon shall join them." Again he said : " The 
Lord is with me, and angels and spirits are around my 
bed to keep me from harm, and to accompany me 
through the dark valley ;" and thus he continued re- 
joicing in hope until he quietly breathed his last on the 
2d of the Ninth month, 1850, in the forty-first year 
of his age. 



JEREMIAH HUBBARD. 

Memorial of Whitewater Monthly Meeting of Friends^ 
Indiana^ concerning Jeremiah Hubbard, deceased^ 
ivho departed this life^ at the house of his son-in- 
law^ in the neighborhood of New Garden^ Indiana^ 
on the2od day of the Eleventh months 1849, aged 
nearly seventy-three years ; and was hiiried at that 
place on the 2bth of the same — a Minister about 
thirty-five years. 

The memory of this dear Friend being fresh in the 
minds of many of us, we incline to preserve upon 
record some m.emorial of him as follows ; 



148 JEREMIAH HUBBARD. 

He was born in Virginia, on the 13th day of the 
Second month, 1777, and brought up in Person 
county, North Carolina. His parents were not at 
that time members of our religious society, but were 
piously inclined, and manifested a concern to bring 
up their children in a religious life. 

We know but little of his early life, having no 
written statement before us concerning him ; but he 
has been often heard to allude, in his public ministry, 
to the tender religious impressions he had in his early 
years, and the workings of divine grace upon his spirit, 
convincing him of sin, and leading him to see the ne- 
cessity of a change of heart and life. He has often 
referred, with much feeling, to the tender care of his 
beloved mother, in giving him Christian advice and 
instruction, remembering its moving and lasting effect 
upon his youthful mind, and its influence in preserving 
him from evil, and inducing him to choose the good — 
so that he was frequently concerned to press the duty 
of such care and instruction upon the consideration of 
other parents. Another circumstance we well remem- 
ber — his speaking of the care of his mother in having 
him to read to her, for his instruction, when quite 
young, from the New Testament, and the savory im- 
pressions he received therefrom. These circumstances 
may show that some things which at the time appear 
to be of no great consequence, exert an influence very 
durable over the tender minds of children. 

He bore abundant testimony to the power of divine 



JEREMIAH HUBBARD, 149 

grace, in leading him, as years advanced, into much 
thoughtfulness as to his spiritual condition, and to see 
the necessity of conversion. He was enabled also to 
see the evil of unprofitable associates, and to turn 
aside from some of the temptations and snares into 
which the youth are liable to fall. 

He has expressed the opinion, that he experienced 
a change of heart by the time he was fifteen years of 
age. We have no doubt that he gave evidence of the 
influence of the changing power of the Spirit of Truth 
pretty young; for he was received, as we are in- 
formed, at his own request, into membership with our 
religious society at an early period of his life. 

He valued very highly the privilege of meeting 
with Friends for religious worship; a duty which 
there is reason to believe he attended to diligently, as 
he often referred, in after life, to his own experience, 
when admonishing others to the like duty. 

We know but little of his Christian progress after 
the time last referred to, until he was acknowledged a 
minister of the gospel. 

Being of an active mind and good natural endow- 
ments, he had obtained, without mxich benefit of 
schools, such knowledge of the usual branches of a 
common education, that thereby he became, for many 
years, quite useful as a teacher ; during which he took 
much care to communicate religious instruction, as 
well as literary, to the children and youth who were 
placed under his charge. He was kind spirited and 
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150 JEREMIAH HUBBARD. 

generous, so that the youth who went to school to 
him were much attached to him. 

As years advanced, he labored and traveled much 
in the service of the gospel of Christ. The first long 
journey he made was to the north, in the year 1823. 
From this time onward, he was much from home in 
the work of the ministrj^, visiting, in the course of 
his travels, Friends in almost all parts of the United 
States where they were settled, holding public meet- 
ings with them and others, and often holding public 
meetings at places where no Friends resided. He 
removed to the western country in the year 1837, 
and finally settled in Richmond, in the limits of this 
Monthly Meeting, to which he was joined by cer- 
tificate. 

He had much zeal for the cause of Christ, and 
preached largely the grace freely offered through him 
for the salvation of fallen man. Indeed, the fallen 
and lost condition of man in his natural unregenerated 
state ; the necessity of regeneration ; the great love 
of God through our Lord Jesus Christ, and free grace 
through him, were themes frequently and largely 
dwelt upon in his pubhc communications, accompanied 
with exhortations to obedience to that grace which 
brings salvation, and which has appeared to all men. 
The divinity, atonement and mediation of our blessed 
Saviour; the necessity of sincere and living faith; 
the great reality of the judgment to come, and of 
future rewards and punishments; and the necessity 



JEREMIAH HUBBARD. 151 

of conversion in order to salvation, are doctrines 
which he firmly believed^ and labored extensively to 
inculcate. 

He had a deep regard for the Holy Scriptures, 
believing that they are able to make wise unto salva- 
tion through faith in Jesus Christ, and, therefore, 
read and dwelt upon of their contents himself, and 
often recommended others to do so also, and that 
they should be read daily in families in a collective 
capacity. 

He possessed largely of the common frailties of 
human nature; and although his weaknesses were 
sometimes apparent, it was evident that he desired, 
and sought with much prayer, to live a life devoted 
to the service of Christ, and in the fellowship of the 
true spiritual church. 

For several weeks previous to his confinement with 
his last illness, he appeared to be sensible that the end 
of his life was drawing near ; and not being able to 
travel about, he sat much alone in silent meditation, 
being also several times engaged in vocal supplication 
with the family. 

He continued to have a deep interest in the welfare 
of our religious society ; and hearing a favorable ac- 
count of the proceedings of the Yearly Meeting, he 
remarked that he had " felt like the Lord would be 
with them ;" and at another time, speaking of the 
travails and exercises of those upon whom the burden 
of society very much rests, he said : " I can say, as it 



152 JEREMIAH HUBBARD. 

was said of the dear Saviour, I have seen the travail 
of my soul, and am satisfied." 

After his confinement to bed, it was evident, fi:om 
some of his expressions, that the Lord, for some gra- 
cious purpose, saw meet that his faith should be 
proved, by permitting his mind to be somewhat 
clouded, on account of a want of all that clear evi- 
dence of his acceptance which he desired to have. 
But he was mercifully helped to maintain his faith ; 
and was once heard to say : " Though He slay me, yet 
will I trust in Him!" and again: "I will bear the 
indignation of the Lord." 

His sufferings of body being at times very great, 
his prayers were poured forth to the God and Father 
of all mercies, to be healed of all maladies, and to be at 
rest ; and at other times, he was engaged in giving 
thanks and praises for the mercies granted him. 

One morning, after a night of deep conflict of mind 
and great suffering of body (on which occasion the 
earnest intercessions of some present for his rehef 
from his sufferings and acceptance with the Lord were 
poured forth), he remarked, that the hiirden was taken 
from Ms shoulders. This was afterward more fully 
manifested by the ease and sweet composure of his 
mind, and the tranquillity and peace with which he 
was favored during the rest of the time he lived. 

Once, on being inquired of by a dear friend how he 
was, he replied, "perfectly easy^ loth in body and 
77timiy His hopes of eternal happiness appeared to 



JEREMIAH HUBBARD. 153 

rest entirely on the mercies of God through the 
merits of Christ Jesus, claiming no title to salvation 
from any works of righteousness which he had done. 
He appeared to dwell with comfort on the following 
passage of Scripture : " But ye are washed^ but ye are 
sanctified^ but ye are justified in the name of the Lord 
JesuSj and by the Spirit of our God." That faith 
which he had maintained from his youth, continued to 
afford him a confiding hope, as an anchor of the soul, 
at the approach of death. 

He did not lose his love for the Scriptures : at one 
time he requested all to be still and that a chapter be 
read, which being done, a friend near him knelt in 
supplication, to which, when ended, he said : " Amen, 
saith my soul !" 

One evening several friends were in his room, who 
thought the time of his departure near. He revived, 
and spoke for some time, during which he said: 
"Friends, talk not to yourselves, but talk to the 
Lord, that Christ may dwell in your hearts richly by 
faith, teaching you to admonish one another in psalms 
and hymns, and spiritual songs, making melody in 
your hearts to the Lord;" with much more, closing 
with the words : " Faith is the substance of things 
hoped for — the evidence of things not seen." 

His heart seemed to be filled with love and tender- 
ness toward the many friends who visited him in his 
last illness, and he expressed how beautiful they ap- 
peared to him. He exhorted some in the younger 
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154 MARY S. WATKINS. 

walks to be faithful in bringing up their children; 
which great and weighty concern did not lose its im- 
portance in his mind now toward the winding up of 
his time here. 

To some aged friends, who came to see him a few 
days before his decease, he said : " Friends, sit down, 
and make yourselves happy ; the Lord lives here with 
us, and a glorious companion He is ; kinder friends a 
dying man never had ; they come from far and near 
to see me." 

After this, he did not say much more that could be 
understood. For a day and night previous to the 
final close, his breathing became shorter ; and losing 
the power of articulation, he frequently made efforts 
to speak, but could not be understood. The last 
accents which were heard, in a dying whisper, were : 
"Jesus — come." Soon after, with a look of great 
calmness and resignation, he expired. 



MARY S. WATKINS, 

A testimony of Goshm Monthly Meeting^ Ohio^ con- 
cerning our leloved Friend^ Mary S. Watkins, 
deceased. 

She was the daughter of John and Sarah Taylor, 
members of the Society of Friends, and was born in 



MARY S. WATKINS. 155 

the year 1811, near Mount Pleasant, Ohio. She re- 
ceived but very little literary education, but her mind 
was early visited with religious impressions; and 
although she suffered these to be much effaced by the 
foUies of youth, yet they were mercifully renewed 
from time to time, as she advanced in years; yet 
being of a volatile disposition, and fond of gayety, she 
had much to overcome ; but by yielding to the opera- 
tions of Divine Grace, she was enabled to obtain the 
victory, through faith in him who loved us, and gave 
himself for us, that he might redeem us from all 
iniquity. 

In the year 1828, she was united in marriage with 
our friend, Lemuel Watkins, and settled within the 
limits of this Monthly Meeting. 

About this time, the difficulties in our society, 
caused by the unsound doctrines of Elias Hicks and 
his followers, occasioned a separation in this meeting. 
By this event, the faith of our dear friend was 
closely tried. Her parents joining with the Separatists, 
she felt that she could not unite with them therein ; 
but, through discouragement, neglected the attend- 
ance of our religious meetings, and suffered herself to 
be disowned. Yet, in this barren condition, she found 
no peace until she resumed the attendance of meet- 
ings. This act of duty drew upon her fresh trials ; 
but continuing in a good degree faithful, she was 
enabled to make satisfaction to her friends, and was 
restored to membership. She gradually increased in 



156 MARY S. WATKINS. 

religious growth and experience, and in 1846, the 
thirty-sixth year of her age, she appeared in the min- 
istry. For some time, her appearances in this way 
were not frequent ; but endeavoring to abide patiently 
under the preparing hand of the great Minister and 
Head of the Church, she advanced in the school of 
Christ, and in the year 1850, he gift was acknowl- 
edged, and she was recommended to the station of a 
minister. 

Soon after this, her mind was drawn in love to visit, 
with the glad tidings of the gospel of our Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ, many of the meetings of Friends; 
and having the unity and approbation of her friends at ' 
home, she ^ was, from time to time, liberated and en- 
couraged in this arduous service. She often expressed 
that she beheved her time was short, and that she felt 
a great necessity to work while the day remained, for 
in the approaching night none can work. Her health 
was poor, and as she continued mostly in the field of 
labor, it gradually failed, and each journey seemed 
that it might be her last. Notwithstanding the feeble 
state of her health, she was enabled to visit, with the 
message of love, many of the meetings of Friends in 
other Yearly Meetings as well as in our own. In the 
course of her religious exercises, her mind was often 
drawn toward those not members of our religious 
society, and under the influence of that pure gospel 
which breathes peace on earth and good-will to men, 
she became qualified in good measure to show forth 



MAEY S. WATKINS. 157 

to others what the Lord had done for her, and to in- 
vite all to come and partake of his rich mercies 
through repentance and faith in a crucified, risen and 
glorified Redeemer. 

In the course of her travail and exercises, her mind 
was frequently drawn out with compassion toward that 
class of our fellow-creatures who, through unwatchful- 
ness and disobedience to the laws of our country, were 
confined within the walls of a prison-house. She vis- 
ited the penitentiaries of several of the different 
States, and some of them more than once. Many of 
these seasons proved very satisfactory. She seemed 
peculiarly qualified for this service, and many of the 
poor and unfortunate criminals, as she imparted to 
them the word of hope and consolation, and reasoned 
of righteousness, of temperance, and judgment to 
come, appeared to realize the blessing of the gospel 
of Christ. 

The oppressed condition of the African decendants 
made a deep impression on the mind of our dear 
friend, her feelings often drew her to mingle with 
them, in the course of her travels, both in the free 
and slave-holding States, holding meetings with them 
and with their masters, to comfort and satisfaction. 
Laboring, as ability was afforded, to impress that 
apostolic truth, ^Hhat God hath made of one* blood 
all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the 
earth." 

Notwithstanding our dear sister was called and 



158 MARY S. WATKINS- 

gifted to preach the gospel of peace, she had many 
trials and deep baptisms to pass through, from time 
to time, in order to fit and qualify her for the service 
of Him who putteth forth his own, and goeth before 
them. And we find noted in her diary, the attend- 
ance of silent meetings, " deeply engaged, but no way 
opening to speak." And in contemplating an arduous 
engagement near the close of her labors of love, she 
writes : " The prospect looks gloomy — my health is so 
poor, yet I resign it all, and am glad when I can say, 
Thy will, Father, and not mine, be done. I am 
afraid I am too much inclined to distrust in times of 
adversity. send me help from Zion, and strength 
from thy holy hill !'' Under these feelings, this de- 
voted handmaid took a final leave. "I took (said 
she) the parting hand, pressed the parting lips, and 
spoke the solemn farewell — all, all, I trust, for His 
sake, whose loving kindness is better than life." 

Feeble and emaciated with pulmonary consumption, 
and the sands of life being almost run, human pru- 
dence would have dictated, and the feelings of nature 
would have prompted her to remain in the bosom of 
her femily the few remaining days of her life, there to 
receive the solace of affection. But her love for Him 
who calls and qualifies for his service, was stronger 
than earthly ties, and his favor more valued than the 
endearments of home. So that she could, in good 
measure, say with the apostle, " None of these things 
move me, neither count I my life dear to myself, so 



MARY S. WATKINS. 159 

that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry 
I have received of the Lord Jesus^ to testify the gos- 
pel of the grace of God." 

Our dear friend was a lover of the Holy Scriptures, 
and strongly recommended the diligent reading of 
them by precept and example. She writes : " May 
my surviving friends, my precious family, and in an 
especial manner, those of the household of faith, be 
encouraged to persevere in all times of discourage- 
ment, trusting in the Lord Jesus, our never-failing 
friend." And she here mentions particular chapters 
in the Bible, and recommending them, says : " Very 
often have these been to me like a refreshing shower 
on a thirsty land. And now let my change come 
when it may, at my own home, or if it please the 
Ancient of Days to continue me in the field until I 
drop the shackles of mortality. 0, that others may 
be induced to read of His goodness, of His promises, 
and of His wonderful works to the children of 
men !" 

After having traveled extensively in this her last 
journey, and while on board the boat, on her way to 
Iowa, she makes the following, her last memorandum : 
"Calm, prayerful feelings pervade my mind; I de- 
sire to hold myself in readiness for the midnight cry, 
for it is my meat and drink to do my Master's will. 
This morning, on taking our seats for Scripture read- 
ing (a practice she was careful to observe in her 
travels), the wing of the Ancient Goodness seemed 



160 MARY S. W ATKINS. 

to be spread over us. Oh ! what shall I render to 
the Lord for his goodness to us-ward ? How often 
has He made a way for me when there appeared to be 
no way ? Bow low, my soul, and for getnot to offer 
thyself a willing sacrifice !" 

She pursued her journey, and reached the Quarterly 
Meeting of Pleasant Plain, in Iowa ; here her strength 
failing, she was conveyed to the house of a friend, where 
she received every necessary attention. Her remaining 
strength gradually waned until the 14th of the Sixth 
month, 1854, when she peacefully passed away from 
the scenes of her earthly labors to deceive, we humbly 
trust, the reward of the righteous, aged forty-three 
years, one month, and fifteen days. Thus, to use her 
own expression, continuing in the field until she 
dropped the shackles of mortality* 

May the reading of this memoir encourage others 
to set their affections on things above, and follow on 
in like faithfulness in the way of life and peace, en- 
deavoring to promote the Redeemer's kingdom and 
the salvation of mankind ; remembering that, " They 
that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firma- 
ment, and they that turn many to righteousness, as 
the stars, forever and ever." 



ANNE MOORE. 161 



ANNE MOOKE. 

Testimony of Milford 3Ionthly Meeting^ Indiana^ con^ 
cerning Anne Moore, deceased. 

In commemorating the work of faith and labor of 
love, which were exemplified in the dedicated course of 
this dear Friend, and the brightness and peace which 
marked its termination, the language of invitation 
seems to go forth to others, to follow her pious exam- 
ple. Although she was by nature a child of wrath 
even as others, having the same temptations and 
trials, and the same unwearied enemy to contend 
with, and while in the slippery paths of youth often 
wandering from the straight and narrow way, yet, 
through a hungering and thirsting after righteousness, 
she was at times favored with the influence of divine 
grace, enabling her more clearly to see not only the 
sinfulness of sin, but also the manifest beauty of 
holiness. 

She was born in Person county, North Carolina, 
the loth of Fifth month, 1781. Her parents, Joseph 
and Anne Hubbard, though not members of any reli- 
gious society, were religiously inclined persons, and 
concerned to bring up their children in that way that 
would be most likely to conduce to their preservation, 
guarding them against, and restraining them from 

much of the associations of the vain ; and from parti- 
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162 ANNE MOORE. 

cipating in the corrupting amusements and pernicious 
practices of the day, with which they were surrounded. 
This parental care^ our dear friend often spoke of in 
after life, as a special favor and blessing. In her 
religious pursuit, she attached herself to the Metho- 
dist Society, but not finding that peace of mind 
which seemed desirable, and still endeavoring to keep 
a single eye to the guidance of the Spirit of Truth, 
she found it to consist with her peace to adopt the 
plain, scriptural language, though in the cross, and 
after remaining a few years with the Methodists, she 
apprehended it required of her to join the Society of 
Friends. There a multitude of difficulties seemed to 
present. It being about forty miles to a Monthly 
Meeting, and no meeting of Friends much nearer, 
her constitution very delicate, they in limited circum- 
stances, and to separate from her husband in religious 
fellowship, all seemed to combine to render a compli- 
ance extremely difficult. But our dear friend who 
had become acquainted with cross-bearing, and know- 
ing that without bearing the cross, we cannot expect 
to wear the crown, yielded to apprehended duty, made 
application, and was received into membership by 
Spring Monthly Meeting, Orange county, North Caro- 
lina, in the Seventh month, 1814. In this, hard 
things were made easy. The time was not long until 
the way appeared to open, and they removed to New 
Garden, Guilford county, quite convenient to meeting, 
where she soon had the satisfaction of having her 



ANNE MOORE. 163 

husband and all their family united with her in mem- 
bership with Friends. 

Her religious concern becoming expanded^ embrac- 
ing the whole human family^ she felt herself con- 
strained to invite others to turn from darkness to 
light, and from the power of Satan unto God, and so 
escape the Avrath to come. She had the charge of a 
numerous family of children, toAvard whom she dis- 
charged the part of a tender, affectionate mother, not 
only in administering to present wants, but endeavor- 
ing, both by example and precept, to make the way 
plain and easy for them even while children, to come 
unto Christ, instructing them in the relationship in 
which man stands toward his great Creator ; his entire 
dependent condition, and the realities of a future 
world, and, with the assistance of her husband, often 
having them collected into stillness, for the purpose of 
reading a portion of Holy Scripture, and impressing 
on their minds the value of those sacred writings, which 
so clearly open the works of creation, man's fallen 
condition, and his only hope of salvation. She was 
acknowledged on record as a minister of the gospel in 
1831. She traveled some at times, in the work of 
the ministry, and was frequently engaged in visiting 
families, a work for which she seemed peculiarly 
gifted. Although she entertained the most humble 
views of her own worth or attainments, yet, through 
trusting in, and adhering to her heavenly Guide, she 
was enabled to walk in the path of the just, which is 



164 ANNE MOORE, 

as a shining light which shines more and more unto 
the perfect day. / 

In 1837, she removed with her husband, and settled 
in the limits of Milford Monthly Meeting, Indiana, 
where she spent what may be termed the evening of 
her day, where she continued to grow in grace, and in 
the knowledge and love of the truth, so that not only 
her precept in words fitly spoken, but also the exam- 
ple of her every-day life, were truly lessons of in- 
struction, and so manifestly marked her heavenly- 
mindedness, that even the skeptic could scarcely fail 
to perceive that he was in the presence of a Christian ; 
and the Zion traveler to be comforted and encouraged 
on his journey. The adornment of a meek and quiet 
spirit, and the Christian dignity of her countenance 
rendered her highly interesting, even among strangers. 
Her ministerial communications were seldom very 
extensive, yet she was sound in the faith, clear in the 
doctrines of redemption, sensible that it was only by 
the atonement made for the sins of the world, that 
she had been enabled through mercy, to yield to the 
operations of the influence of the Holy Spirit, and . 
thus to feel repentance toward God, and faith toward 
our Lord Jesus Christ. She was exceedingly tender 
of the feehngs, and careful of the reputation of others, 
not allowing herself the privilege of using expressions 
derogatory to the character, or calculated to wound 
the feelings of an}^ Thus our dear friend, while pass- 
ing the evening of her day, has left us a bright example 



ANNE MOORE. 165 

of rendering life valuable even in its late declining 
years. 

For a few of the last years of her hfe, her bodily 
afflictions were such as often to prevent her attending 
our religious meetings^ a duty to which she had long 
been warmly devoted. Her sweetness of disposition 
and gratitude for kindness^, were conspicuous, almost 
to the very last, so that it seemed a pleasure to those 
around her to do her the smallest service. She de- 
ceased the 3d day of Third month, 1855, and was 
buried on the 5 th, in Friends' burying-ground at Mil- 
ford, which was pretty largely attended by Friends 
and others. And while we keenly feel the loss, and 
think who shall fill the vacant place, we have no doubt 
but she was prepared to join the just of all genera- 
tions, there to appear as one of those whose concern 
and labor had been to turn many to righteousness. 



